German adjectives are your ticket to saying more than just “the house is big.” With the right ones, you can describe a cozy café, a grumpy waiter, or the exact shade of someone’s questionable sweater. This collection rounds up around 1,000 of the most common German adjectives you’ll actually use in daily life – not the obscure ones from a poetry anthology.
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| Word | Type | Meaning | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schornstein | Other | chimney | |
| schrecklich | Adjective | terrible, dreadful, frightful, awful, fearful, horrible | |
| schriftlich | Adjective | written, in writing | |
| schüchtern | Adjective | shy, bashful | |
| schuld | Adjective | it is my fault... | |
| schuldig | Adjective | guilty, responsible | |
| Schuss | Other | shot | |
| schwach | Adjective | weak, feeble | |
| schwamm | Other | sponge | |
| schwanger | Adjective | pregnant | |
| Schwanz | Other | tail, brush, postabdomen | |
| schwarz | Adjective | black | |
| Schwarze | Other | priest, blackcoat, cassock, sky pilot | |
| schwer | Adjective | heavy | |
| schwierig | SHVEE-rikh | ||
| seekrank | Adjective | seasick | |
| selbstständig | Adjective | independent | |
| selbstverständlich | Adjective | self-evident, obvious | |
| selten | Adjective | rare, scarce | |
| seltsam | Adjective | strange, odd, peculiar, queer, funny, curious | |
| senior | Adjective | Senior | |
| Sensation | Other | sensation | |
| sentimental | Adjective | sentimental, mawkish soppy | |
| Serbien | Other | Serbia | |
| Sergeant | Other | sergeant |
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