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karakter

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈrak.tər/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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karakter (plural karakters)

  1. character

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter

Noun

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karakter

  1. character (trait marking a person or group)
    Synonyms: batasan, gawi
  2. character (moral strength)
  3. character (symbol for a sound or word)
  4. (authorship) character (being in a story)
    Synonym: personahe

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:karakter.

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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karakter m inan

  1. Obsolete form of charakter.

Declension

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Declension of karakter (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative karakter karaktery
genitive karakteru karakterů
dative karakteru karakterům
accusative karakter karaktery
vocative karaktere karaktery
locative karakteru karakterech
instrumental karakterem karaktery

Further reading

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  • “karakter”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “karakter”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Etymology

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From French caractère (“character, personality”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /karakteːr/, [kʰɑɑɡ̊ˈtˢeːˀɐ̯]

Noun

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karakter c (singular definite karakteren, plural indefinite karakterer)

  1. character (distinguishing feature)
  2. mark (a score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement)
  3. grade (rating)

Declension

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Declension of karakter
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative karakter karakteren karakterer karaktererne
genitive karakters karakterens karakterers karakterernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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karakter n (plural karakters, diminutive karaktertje n)

  1. a character, standardized graphic symbol, such as a letter of an alphabet or a numeric digit
  2. a character; a role, often conventionalised, in theatre
  3. a nature, a character
  4. a character, a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone
  5. (obsolete) a magical mark, a witch's mark

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: karakter
  • → Indonesian: karakter

Hungarian

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 karakter on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Latin character.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒrɒktɛr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

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karakter (plural karakterek)

  1. character (a person's psychological characteristics)
  2. character (a person with a distinctive personality)
  3. character (strength of mind, moral strength)
  4. character, glyph (a written or printed symbol, or letter)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative karakter karakterek
accusative karaktert karaktereket
dative karakternek karaktereknek
instrumental karakterrel karakterekkel
causal-final karakterért karakterekért
translative karakterré karakterekké
terminative karakterig karakterekig
essive-formal karakterként karakterekként
essive-modal — —
inessive karakterben karakterekben
superessive karakteren karaktereken
adessive karakternél karaktereknél
illative karakterbe karakterekbe
sublative karakterre karakterekre
allative karakterhez karakterekhez
elative karakterből karakterekből
delative karakterről karakterekről
ablative karaktertől karakterektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		karakteré karaktereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		karakteréi karakterekéi
Possessive forms of karakter
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. karakterem karaktereim
2nd person sing. karaktered karaktereid
3rd person sing. karaktere karakterei
1st person plural karakterünk karaktereink
2nd person plural karakteretek karaktereitek
3rd person plural karakterük karaktereik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

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  • karakter in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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karakter m (genitive singular karakters, nominative plural karakterar)

  1. character (a person’s psychological characteristics)
  2. a person with a distinctive personality
  3. (dated) grade, mark

Declension

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Declension of karakter (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative karakter karakterinn karakterar karakterarnir
accusative karakter karakterinn karaktera karakterana
dative karakter karakternum karakterum karakterunum
genitive karakters karaktersins karaktera karakteranna

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

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From Dutch karakter, from Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kaˈrak̚tər]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rak‧têr

Noun

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karaktêr (plural karakter-karakter, first-person possessive karakterku, second-person possessive karaktermu, third-person possessive karakternya)

  1. character:
    1. a person's psychological characteristics; especially guts, backbone; quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
      Synonyms: tabiat, watak
    2. (computing, mathematics) a written or printed symbol, or letter.
    3. (computing) one of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel etc.).

Noun

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karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterer, definite plural karakterene)

  1. character, nature
  2. a character (in a novel, etc.)
  3. mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterer ― good marks

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr); from English character (in a novel, etc.).

Noun

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karakter m (definite singular karakteren, indefinite plural karakterar, definite plural karakterane)

  1. character, nature
  2. a character (in a novel, etc.)
  3. mark (in an exam, schoolwork)
    gode karakterar ― good marks

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Serbo-Croatian

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Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Pronunciation

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Noun

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karàkter m (Cyrillic spelling кара̀ктер)

  1. character

Declension

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Declension of karakter
singular plural
nominative karakter karakteri
genitive karaktera karaktera
dative karakteru karakterima
accusative karakter karaktere
vocative karakteru karakteri
locative karakteru karakterima
instrumental karakterom karakterima

Further reading

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  • “karakter”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish carácter, from Latin character. Sense 4, semantic loan from English character.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /kaˈɾakteɾ/ [kɐˈɾak.t̪ɛɾ] (“trait; moral strength”, noun)
    • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾakteɾ/ [ˌkaː.ɾɐkˈt̪ɛɾ], /kaɾakˈteɾ/ [kɐ.ɾɐkˈt̪ɛɾ] (“symbol for sound of word; being in a story”, noun)
  • Syllabification: ka‧rak‧ter

Noun

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karakter or káraktér or karaktér (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜃ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

  1. character (traits marking a person or group)
  2. character (moral strength)
  3. character (symbol for a sound or word)
  4. character (being in a story)
    Synonyms: bida, persona, personahe
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Further reading

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  • “karakter”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قاراقتر (karakter), from French caractère, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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karakter (definite accusative karakteri, plural karakterler)

  1. character, a symbol such as a letter of an alphabet
  2. a person's psychological characteristics, character
  3. a person in a novel or story

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative karakter
Definite accusative karakteri
Singular Plural
Nominative karakter karakterler
Definite accusative karakteri karakterleri
Dative karaktere karakterlere
Locative karakterde karakterlerde
Ablative karakterden karakterlerden
Genitive karakterin karakterlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterim karakterlerim
2nd singular karakterin karakterlerin
3rd singular karakteri karakterleri
1st plural karakterimiz karakterlerimiz
2nd plural karakteriniz karakterleriniz
3rd plural karakterleri karakterleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimi karakterlerimi
2nd singular karakterini karakterlerini
3rd singular karakterini karakterlerini
1st plural karakterimizi karakterlerimizi
2nd plural karakterinizi karakterlerinizi
3rd plural karakterlerini karakterlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterime karakterlerime
2nd singular karakterine karakterlerine
3rd singular karakterine karakterlerine
1st plural karakterimize karakterlerimize
2nd plural karakterinize karakterlerinize
3rd plural karakterlerine karakterlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimde karakterlerimde
2nd singular karakterinde karakterlerinde
3rd singular karakterinde karakterlerinde
1st plural karakterimizde karakterlerimizde
2nd plural karakterinizde karakterlerinizde
3rd plural karakterlerinde karakterlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimden karakterlerimden
2nd singular karakterinden karakterlerinden
3rd singular karakterinden karakterlerinden
1st plural karakterimizden karakterlerimizden
2nd plural karakterinizden karakterlerinizden
3rd plural karakterlerinden karakterlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterimin karakterlerimin
2nd singular karakterinin karakterlerinin
3rd singular karakterinin karakterlerinin
1st plural karakterimizin karakterlerimizin
2nd plural karakterinizin karakterlerinizin
3rd plural karakterlerinin karakterlerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular karakterim karakterlerim
2nd singular karaktersin karakterlersin
3rd singular karakter
karakterdir 		karakterler
karakterlerdir
1st plural karakteriz karakterleriz
2nd plural karaktersiniz karakterlersiniz
3rd plural karakterler karakterlerdir
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