German edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁaɪ̯ˌɡeːbɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /-ˌɡeːbɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
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  • Hyphenation: frei‧ge‧big

Adjective edit

freigebig (strong nominative masculine singular freigebiger, comparative freigebiger, superlative am freigebigsten)

  1. generous

Usage notes edit

  • Usage of the spelling freigiebig has been increasing slowly but steadily since the 1800s. Whereas freigebig was nearly twenty times more common than freigiebig around 1900, it is now only two to three times as common.[1]

Declension edit

References edit

Further reading edit

  • freigebig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • freigebig” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • freigebig” in Duden online
  • freigebig” in OpenThesaurus.de