# mündig

mündig is a German adjective meaning “legally capable”. Forms: mündiger, am mündigsten.

## Forms

- Comparative: mündiger
- Superlative: am mündigsten

## In other languages

- Русский: совершеннолетний

## Meanings

1. legally capable; mature; of age and not incapacitated; able to take independent legal and political decisions
   - 1914, Erich Mühsam, Idealistisches Manifest, in: Alarm. Manifeste aus 20 Jahren, Der Syndikalist, page 52 — The youth, the offspring, the coming generation declared itself of age. The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.
2. _no-comparative_ of age; of full age
3. responsible; mature

## Examples

- Mündige, informierte Bürger sind die Geißel eines jeden Tyrannen. — Empowered, informed citizens are the scourge of any tyrant.
- Wir haben das Recht zu wählen, wenn wir mündig sind. — We have the right to vote when we come of age.

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