strack
See also: Strack and sträck
German
Etymology
From Middle High German strac (“straight”), from Old High German *strac (attested in framstrac), from Proto-Germanic *strakkaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with Dutch strak. More at stretch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃtʁak/
- Rhymes: -ak
Adjective
strack (comparative stracker, superlative am stracksten)
- (archaic or dialectal) straight, taut
- (colloquial) drunk
Usage notes
- Now chiefly used in the figurative sense “drunk” or in the adverbial form stracks (“directly”). The literal sense is quite rare but still widely understood. It is commonest referring to people’s posture, chiefly with the verbs liegen, sitzen, stehen, sometimes also in the combination strack und steif.
Declension
Positive forms of strack
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist strack | sie ist strack | es ist strack | sie sind strack | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | stracker | stracke | strackes | stracke |
| genitive | stracken | stracker | stracken | stracker | |
| dative | strackem | stracker | strackem | stracken | |
| accusative | stracken | stracke | strackes | stracke | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der stracke | die stracke | das stracke | die stracken |
| genitive | des stracken | der stracken | des stracken | der stracken | |
| dative | dem stracken | der stracken | dem stracken | den stracken | |
| accusative | den stracken | die stracke | das stracke | die stracken | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein stracker | eine stracke | ein strackes | (keine) stracken |
| genitive | eines stracken | einer stracken | eines stracken | (keiner) stracken | |
| dative | einem stracken | einer stracken | einem stracken | (keinen) stracken | |
| accusative | einen stracken | eine stracke | ein strackes | (keine) stracken | |
Comparative forms of strack
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist stracker | sie ist stracker | es ist stracker | sie sind stracker | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | strackerer | strackere | strackeres | strackere |
| genitive | strackeren | strackerer | strackeren | strackerer | |
| dative | strackerem | strackerer | strackerem | strackeren | |
| accusative | strackeren | strackere | strackeres | strackere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der strackere | die strackere | das strackere | die strackeren |
| genitive | des strackeren | der strackeren | des strackeren | der strackeren | |
| dative | dem strackeren | der strackeren | dem strackeren | den strackeren | |
| accusative | den strackeren | die strackere | das strackere | die strackeren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein strackerer | eine strackere | ein strackeres | (keine) strackeren |
| genitive | eines strackeren | einer strackeren | eines strackeren | (keiner) strackeren | |
| dative | einem strackeren | einer strackeren | einem strackeren | (keinen) strackeren | |
| accusative | einen strackeren | eine strackere | ein strackeres | (keine) strackeren | |
Superlative forms of strack
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist am stracksten | sie ist am stracksten | es ist am stracksten | sie sind am stracksten | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | strackster | strackste | strackstes | strackste |
| genitive | stracksten | strackster | stracksten | strackster | |
| dative | strackstem | strackster | strackstem | stracksten | |
| accusative | stracksten | strackste | strackstes | strackste | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der strackste | die strackste | das strackste | die stracksten |
| genitive | des stracksten | der stracksten | des stracksten | der stracksten | |
| dative | dem stracksten | der stracksten | dem stracksten | den stracksten | |
| accusative | den stracksten | die strackste | das strackste | die stracksten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein strackster | eine strackste | ein strackstes | (keine) stracksten |
| genitive | eines stracksten | einer stracksten | eines stracksten | (keiner) stracksten | |
| dative | einem stracksten | einer stracksten | einem stracksten | (keinen) stracksten | |
| accusative | einen stracksten | eine strackste | ein strackstes | (keine) stracksten | |
Synonyms
- (straight): steif, straff, stramm
Derived terms
- stracks
Related terms
- schnurstracks
- strecken
Further reading
- strack in Duden online
Scots
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of strick, or from Old English stræc (“strict”).
Adjective
strack (comparative mair strack, superlative maist strack)
- strict