tugendhaft
German, adjective/ˈtuːɡn̩thaft/
tugendhaft is spelled T-U-G-E-N-D-H-A-F-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tugendhaft is a German adjective meaning “virtuous, modest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Sitten entsprechend, sich vorbildlich verhaltend”.
What does tugendhaft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
virtuous, modest
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den Sitten entsprechend, sich vorbildlich verhaltend
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 tugendhaft
- tugendhafter masculine nominative singular
- am tugendhaftesten superlative
- tugendhafte feminine nominative singular
- tugendhaftes neuter nominative singular
- tugendhaften genitive masculine singular
- tugendhaftem dative masculine singular
- der tugendhafte definite includes-article masculine
- die tugendhafte definite feminine includes-article
- das tugendhafte definite includes-article neuter
- die tugendhaften definite includes-article nominative
- des tugendhaften definite genitive includes-article
- der tugendhaften definite feminine genitive
- dem tugendhaften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tugendhaft?
- /ˈtuːɡn̩thaft/
- [ˈtuːɡn̩thaft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tugendhaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tugendhaft in German?
tugendhaft appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).