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German
Etymology
Boden + ständig
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboːdn̩ʃtɛndɪç/, /ˈboːdənʃtɛndɪç/
- Hyphenation: bo‧den‧stän‧dig
Adjective
bodenständig (strong nominative masculine singular bodenständiger, comparative bodenständiger, superlative am bodenständigsten)
- 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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