# ordinär

ordinär is a German adjective meaning “normal”. Forms: ordinärer, am ordinärsten.

## Forms

- Comparative: ordinärer
- Superlative: am ordinärsten

## In other languages

- Русский: обычный, ординарный

## Meanings

1. _archaic_ normal, usual, ordinary
2. _derogatory · of things_ commonplace, quotidian, trivial
   - Er hat mir von den Bergen vorgeschwärmt und dann waren das ganz ordinäre kleine Hügel. — He kept praising those mountains and then they turned out to be very quotidian little hills.
3. _derogatory · of people_ common, vulgar, unrefined, not suited for polite company
   - Er hat leider eine ganz ordinäre Person geheiratet. — Unfortunately he married a very common woman.

## Examples

- Erzähle in Gegenwart meines Vaters keine ordinären Witze! — Don't tell crude jokes in the presence of my father.
- Dieser Witz ist ordinär. — This joke is crude.

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