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tonig

German, adjective/ˈtoːnɪç/

tonig is spelled T-O-N-I-G (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 235,032nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tonig is a German adjective meaning “clayey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tonig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    clayey

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of tonig

  • toniger masculine nominative singular
  • am tonigsten superlative
  • tonige feminine nominative singular
  • toniges neuter nominative singular
  • tonigen genitive masculine singular
  • tonigem dative masculine singular
  • der tonige definite includes-article masculine
  • die tonige definite feminine includes-article
  • das tonige definite includes-article neuter
  • die tonigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des tonigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der tonigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem tonigen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tonig?

  • /ˈtoːnɪç/
  • /ˈtoːnɪk/

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to tonig

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tonig in German?

tonig appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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