glat

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Danish

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Adjective

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glat (neuter glat, plural and definite singular attributive glatte)

  1. slippery
    Pas på, her er glat.
  2. smooth
    Hans hage var glat.
  3. (calculus) differentiable everywhere

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Old High German (*)glad, northern variant of glat, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz. The modern final -t is irregularly generalised from the uninflected stem.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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glat (masculine glaten, neuter glat, comparative méi glat, superlative am glaatsten)

  1. smooth
    Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.
    The dog had a beautiful, smooth coat.
  2. slippery (e.g. because of ice or water)
    Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.
    He slipped on the slippery floor.

Declension

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declension of glat
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass glat si ass glat et ass glat si si(nn) glat
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner glaten glat glat glat
independent without determiner glates glater
dative after any declined word glaten glater glaten glaten
as first declined word glatem glatem

Adverb

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glat

  1. smoothly
  2. completely, downright

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

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glat

  1. bright

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: glat
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