Grundige

Grundige is a term that can appear in discussions about German-language adjectives to convey the idea of thoroughness or meticulousness. It is not a standard dictionary form in modern German; the base adjective is gründig, meaning thorough, solid, or well-founded. In standard usage, feminine singular and other inflected forms are written as gründliche, and related forms vary with case and gender.

Etymology and orthography: The word derives from the German gründig. In everyday writing, umlauts may be omitted in older texts, typewriters, or nonstandard transcriptions, leading to spellings such as grundig or grundige in some contexts. In most contemporary German texts, the correct and unambiguous spellings are grund- forms with umlauts (for example, gründlich, gründliche) rather than grundige. English-language references to grundige typically indicate a transliteration or a quotation from German rather than a standalone German lemma.

Usage in discourse: When encountered in German-language scholarship, grundige is usually a nonstandard or historical variant, or it may appear in dialectal or transliteration contexts. In standard German, a thorough analysis or examination would be described with gründliche Analyse or gründliche Prüfung, depending on gender and case. In English-language summaries, the sense conveyed is generally “thorough,” “well-grounded,” or “rigorous.”

Other uses: Grundige can also appear as a proper noun in rare cases, serving as a surname or place name in some German-speaking regions.

See also: gründlich, gründliche, thorough, rigorous, German orthography.