Polyglot Dictionary

haarig

/ˈhaːʁɪç/

adjective B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adj Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. hairy

    Built from Haar (hair) + -ig (-y).

Made of

  • Haar hair
  • -ig -y

Similar words

behaart

Behaart is the more neutral, descriptive word for hairy, like a hairy arm; haarig can also mean "tricky, dicey" figuratively, as in "eine haarige Situation."

Similar in other languages

English

fuzzy

Close — hairy relates to fuzzy.

Practice

1 What does haarig mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der Hund ist ganz ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches haarig?

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