hartnäckig
German
editEtymology
editBahuvrīhi compound of hart (“hard”) + Nacken (“neck”) + -ig (adjective suffix), literally “one with a hard, inflexible neck”.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/ (standard)
Audio: (file) - IPA(key): /-ˌnɛkɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: hart‧nä‧ckig
Adjective
edithartnäckig (strong nominative masculine singular hartnäckiger, comparative hartnäckiger, superlative am hartnäckigsten)
Declension
editPositive forms of hartnäckig
Comparative forms of hartnäckig
Superlative forms of hartnäckig
Derived terms
editSee also
editFurther reading
edit- “hartnäckig” in Duden online
- “hartnäckig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (2002) “hartnäckig”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN