krum
Appearance
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
Etymology 2
Verb
krum
- imperative of krumme
References
- “krum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
References
- “krum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum, from Old Saxon krumb, from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.
Adjective
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
Often a bit old-fashioned with connotations of being from hard work or old age in (sense 1).
Declension
Inflection of krum | |||
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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
- krumbukt
- krumelur (“figure made of squiggly lines”)
- krumpassare (“calipers”)
References
- 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
Adjective
krum
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- Danish adjectives
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- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Middle Low German
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk adjectives
- Swedish terms borrowed from Middle Low German
- Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish adjectives
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