blutige

Blutige is a German adjective meaning "bloody" or "bloodstained." It is used to describe nouns that are associated with blood, injury, or violence, and can also appear in figurative phrases such as "eine blutige Vergangenheit" (a bloody past) or "eine blutige Geschichte."

As an attributive adjective, blutig declines according to gender, number, and case. The form blutige is the feminine singular nominative or accusative ending after a determiner that marks the case, for example: Die blutige Wunde (the bloody wound) or Eine blutige Spur (a bloody trace). The predicative form is blutig, as in Die Wunde ist blutig. In plural with a definite article the form becomes blutigen, as in Die blutigen Hände. Without a determiner, strong endings can yield other forms depending on case and number.

Common usage patterns include descriptions of injuries (eine blutige Nase), violent events (eine blutige Schlacht) and sometimes metaphorical or symbolic contexts (eine blutige Geschichte, eine blutige Vergangenheit). The term tends to convey a graphic sense of bloodshed, though its tone can range from clinical to literary, depending on context.

Etymology traces blutig to the German word Blut (blood), with standard German adjective formation dating to the Middle High German period. The form blutige aligns with regular inflection patterns for adjectives derived from nouns expressing bodily or violent associations.

In translation, blutige corresponds to the English "bloody." It is a common descriptor in everyday German, literature, and media, and may appear in titles, headlines, or descriptive passages.