hartnäckig

== German == === Etymology === Bahuvrīhi compound of hart (“hard”) +‎ Nacken (“neck”) +‎ -ig (adjective suffix), literally “one with a hard, inflexible neck”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/ (standard) IPA(key): /-ˌnɛkɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) Hyphenation: hart‧nä‧ckig === Adjective === hartnäckig (strong nominative masculine singular hartnäckiger, comparative hartnäckiger, superlative am hartnäckigsten) obstinate, stubborn (figurative) indelible ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Hartnäckigkeit ==== See also ==== stur, beharrlich === Further reading === “hartnäckig” in Duden online “hartnäckig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache Kluge, Friedrich (2002), “hartnäckig”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN