finster

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German vinster, from Old High German finstar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪnstɐ/
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Adjective

finster (strong nominative masculine singular finsterer, comparative finsterer, superlative am finstersten)

  1. dark
  2. gloomy, lowering
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Die unfruchtbare, von Gott verfluchte Erde war eine Wüste. In der Behausung der ersten Menschen war es eng und finster.
      The infertile land, cursed by God, was a desert. In the abode of the first humans, it was narrow and gloomy.

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Further reading

  • finster” in Duden online
  • finster” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache