ständig
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛndɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛndɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: stän‧dig
Adjective
ständig (not comparable)
Declension
Related terms
Adverb
ständig
Further reading
- “ständig” in Duden online
Swedish
Etymology
stånd + -ig, similar to German ständig. The Swedish/German verb stå/stehen (“to stand”) is the basis for the noun stånd/Stand (“standing”), which can mean both upright standing (without support) and still standing (without movement or change). The still-standing meaning with umlaut and the -ig ending forms the adjective ständig. However, in some compounds (e.g. självständig/selbständig), the same transformation is based on the upright-standing meaning.
Pronunciation
audio: (file)
Adjective
ständig (not comparable)
Declension
| Inflection of ständig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | ständig | — | — |
| Neuter singular | ständigt | — | — |
| Plural | ständiga | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | ständige | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | ständige | — | — |
| All | ständiga | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||