Meaning

  1. strong (intense, powerful, unyielding)
  2. strong (having a high concentration of some ingredient, e.g. alcohol)
  3. (especially) good, great, skilled
  4. (colloquial) brilliant, awesome
  5. (colloquial, dated) incredible, unbelievable
  6. (dated, euphemistic) overweight, fat
  7. strong (inflecting according to a pattern distinct from another called "weak")

Frequency

A2
Dialects

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

starch

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

feerm

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

staargg

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃtark/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German starc, from Old High German stark, from Proto-West Germanic *stark.

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