freigebig

German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. generous

Usage notes

  • 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

References

Further reading

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