bodenständig

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboːdn̩ʃtɛndɪç/, /ˈboːdənʃtɛndɪç/

Adjective

bodenständig (comparative bodenständiger, superlative am bodenständigsten)

  1. down-home, down-to-earth
    • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 13–14:
      Ländlich bodenständige Kinder waren die drei und wurzelten mit allen Herzensfasern in dem Stückchen Erde, das sie Heimat nannten.
      The three of them were rural down-home children and were rooted with all fibres of the heart in the little piece of soil that they called home.

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