flad
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse flatr, from Proto-Germanic *flataz, cognate with English flat. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”), cf. Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús) (whence, via Latin, Danish plat and plads).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]flad (neuter fladt, plural and definite singular attributive flade)
- flat
- crestfallen
- poor, feeble, insipid
- (slang) broke (lacking money)
- deadbeat (exhausted)
- dead, flat (of a battery: unable to generate power)
- (nominalized, common gender) a slap to the face
- Jeg stak ham en flad.
- I slapped him.
- Jeg stak ham en flad.
Inflection
[edit]| positive | comparative | superlative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite common singular | flad | fladere | fladest2 |
| indefinite neuter singular | fladt | fladere | fladest2 |
| plural | flade | fladere | fladest2 |
| definite attributive1 | flade | fladere | fladeste |
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Synonyms
[edit]- (slap): lussing
Romansch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]flad m (plural flads)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) breath (of air)
Derived terms
[edit]- (Rumantsch Grischun) trair flad, trair il flad
- (Sursilvan) trer flad
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- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
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- Danish slang
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- Romansch terms inherited from Latin
- Romansch terms derived from Latin
- Romansch lemmas
- Romansch nouns
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- Rumantsch Grischun
- Sursilvan Romansch