billig

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (formal) appropriate, meet, fair
  2. cheap (low-priced)
  3. cheap (of low quality, mediocre)

Opposite of
teuer, hochpreisig, edel, hochwertig
Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

woolfail

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

woolfel

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈbɪlɪç]
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German billich, from Old High German billīh (“appropriate”), from a suffixed form of Proto-Germanic *biliz (“merciful, kind, decent, fair”).

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