hartnäckig
German
Etymology
Bahuvrīhi compound of hart (“hard”) + Nacken (“neck”) + -ig (adjective suffix), literally “one with a hard, inflexible neck”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/ (standard)
(file) - IPA(key): /-ˌnɛkɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
(file) - Hyphenation: hart‧nä‧ckig
Adjective
hartnäckig (strong nominative masculine singular hartnäckiger, comparative hartnäckiger, superlative am hartnäckigsten)
Declension
Positive forms of hartnäckig
Comparative forms of hartnäckig
Superlative forms of hartnäckig
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “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
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