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trutzig

German, adjective/ˈtʁʊ t͡sɪç/

trutzig is a German adjective meaning “defiant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “wehrhaft, widerstandsfähig”.

What does trutzig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    defiant

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. wehrhaft, widerstandsfähig

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of trutzig

  • trutziger masculine nominative singular
  • am trutzigsten superlative
  • trutzige feminine nominative singular
  • trutziges neuter nominative singular
  • trutzigen genitive masculine singular
  • trutzigem dative masculine singular
  • der trutzige definite includes-article masculine
  • die trutzige definite feminine includes-article
  • das trutzige definite includes-article neuter
  • die trutzigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des trutzigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der trutzigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem trutzigen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce trutzig?

  • /ˈtʁʊ t͡sɪç/
  • [ˈtʁʊt͡sɪç]
  • [ˈtʁʊt͡sɪk]

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

How common is trutzig in German?

trutzig appears about once in every 48 million words in written German.

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