Similar words
hart
Close synonyms for "tough" — hart is hard, zäh is tough/chewy (food) or tenacious/persistent.
Similar in other languages
English
chewy
chewy and German zäh both directly describe food that takes effort to chew.
Practice
1 What does zäh mean?
tough, chewy (of food); tenacious, persistent
2 Fill the gap: Das Fleisch war ziemlich ___.
Full sentence: Das Fleisch war ziemlich zäh. (The meat was rather tough.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches zäh?
zäh: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.