hoch

Meaning

Adj

1. high, tall
2. high, great, immense
3. grand, important
4. (colloquial) hard to comprehend, confusing

Adv

1. up, upwards
2. (colloquial, figuratively) northwards
3. to the power of

Concepts

high

tall

lofty

up

🆙

loud

to the power of

big

high up

far up

aloft

highly

upper

eminent

superior

loftily

long

elevated

great

way up

outstanding

overhead

prominent

salient

sharp

spacious

superb

to

to the

trebly

vast

wide

high place

alpinely

high

up

🆙

above

high

alto

amount

August

brilliant

distinguished

exalted

excellent

exemplary

expensive

💰

extremely

fantastic

fine

grand

Synonyms

erhaben

groß

wichtig

bedeutend

lang

luftig

großartig

oben

obig

ausgezeichnet

erhöht

droben

🆙

hinauf

🆙

eminent

ober

über

laut

vortrefflich

breit

Halt

hehr

herauf

🆙

hervorragend

himmelwärts

himmelwärts gerichtet

hochfliegend

Höhe

klar

leuchtend

nach oben

🆙

prächtig

prägnant

scharf

schrill

signifikant

spät

stolz

toll

trefflich

vornehm

vorzüglich

weit

großräumig

aufragen

in der Höhe

haushoch

in die Höhe

rauf

🆙

Ehrfurcht gebietend

hochgesteckt

Translations

alto

haut

alto

hoog

alto

alt

yüksek

elevado

altus

grand

elevato

verheven

bilind

celsus

Dialects

Zürich

hoch

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

hoch

Bern

höch

Basel-Landschaft

hooch

Zürich

höch

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hoːx/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: hōch

Inherited from Old High German: hōh

Cognate with Dutch: hoog

Cognate with English: high

Cognate with Swedish: hög

In summary

From Middle High German hōch, from Old High German hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. Compare Dutch hoog, Low German hoog, English high, Swedish hög.
The irregular declension from the stem hoh- is due to the development of Old High German -h-, which in Middle High German became /x/ in coda position, but /h/ elsewhere (the latter was then gradually lost, starting from the north). Stem alternations of this kind were usually levelled in modern German, as for example in nah (but compare nach), Schuh (Middle High German nāch, schuoch). Most dialects have also levelled hoch, but the standard language has preserved the alternation in this isolated case.

Sentences

Die größten der Säulen sind etwa vier Meter hoch .

The largest of the columns are about four meters high.

Wie hoch ist der aktuelle gesetzliche Mindestlohn ?

What is the current statutory minimum wage?

Außerdem ist die Anzahl der schadhaften, nicht verwendbaren Felle sehr hoch .

In addition, the number of damaged, unusable skins is very high.