glat
See also: glät and GLAT
Danish
Adjective
glat (neuter glat, plural and definite singular attributive glatte)
- slippery
- Pas på, her er glat.
- smooth
- Hans hage var glat.
- (calculus) differentiable everywhere
Luxembourgish
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ɡlaːt/
- Rhymes: -aːt
Adjective
glat (masculine glaten, neuter glat, comparative méi glat, superlative am glaatsten)
- smooth
- Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.
- The dog had a beautiful, smooth coat.
- Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.
- slippery (e.g. because of ice or water)
- Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.
- He slipped on the slippery floor.
- Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.
Declension
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 | |
without article | nominative/accusative | glaten | glat | glat | glat |
dative | glatem | glater | glatem | glaten | |
with article | nominative/accusative | glaten | glat | glat | glat |
dative | glaten | glater | glaten | glaten |
Adverb
glat
- smoothly
- completely, downright
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gladaz, whence also Old English glæd, Old Norse glaðr
Adjective
glat
- bright