krum
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective[edit]
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- krumme (verb)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective[edit]
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- krumme (verb)
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
krum
- imperative of krumme
References[edit]
- “krum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective[edit]
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Related terms[edit]
- krumme (verb)
References[edit]
- “krum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German krum, from Old Saxon krumb, from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.
Adjective[edit]
krum (comparative krummare, superlative krummast)
- (of a person) having a hunched back
- bent out of shape, crooked (of for example a tree or a body part)
- (archaic) bent, curved (in general)
Usage notes[edit]
Often a bit old-fashioned with connotations of being from hard work or old age in (sense 1).
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of krum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | krum | krummare | krummast |
| Neuter singular | krumt | krummare | krummast |
| Plural | krumma | krummare | krummast |
| Masculine plural3 | krumme | krummare | krummast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | krumme | krummare | krummaste |
| All | krumma | krummare | krummaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms[edit]
- krumelur (“figure made of squiggly lines”)
- krumpassare (“calipers”)
References[edit]
- krum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- krum in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Tok Pisin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
krum
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