freigebig

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German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

freigebig (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, the two terms now occur with about the same frequency.[1]

Declension

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Further reading

References

  1. ^ freigebig, freigiebig at Google Ngram Viewer
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