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vorsichtig

German, adjective/ˈfoːɐ̯ˌzɪçtɪç/

vorsichtig is a German adjective meaning “deliberate (not hasty or sudden); careful, cautious, wary, circumspect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorsicht zeigend, Achtung gebend”.

What does vorsichtig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    deliberate (not hasty or sudden); careful, cautious, wary, circumspect

    vorsichtige Schätzung

adverb

  1. 1

    carefully

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Vorsicht zeigend, Achtung gebend

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 vorsichtig

  • vorsichtiger masculine nominative singular
  • am vorsichtigsten superlative
  • vorsichtige feminine nominative singular
  • vorsichtiges neuter nominative singular
  • vorsichtigen genitive masculine singular
  • vorsichtigem dative masculine singular
  • der vorsichtige definite includes-article masculine
  • die vorsichtige definite feminine includes-article
  • das vorsichtige definite includes-article neuter
  • die vorsichtigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des vorsichtigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der vorsichtigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem vorsichtigen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce vorsichtig?

  • /ˈfoːɐ̯ˌzɪçtɪç/
  • /ˈfoːɐ̯ˌzɪçtɪk/
  • [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌzɪçtɪç]

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

English words that translate to vorsichtig

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

How common is vorsichtig in German?

vorsichtig appears 28 times per million words in written German.

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