flach

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See also: Flach and Fläch

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vlach, from Old High German flah, from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flaχ/
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  • Rhymes: -ax

Adjective

flach (strong nominative masculine singular flacher, comparative flacher, superlative am flachsten)

  1. shallow (wide and not deep)
    Synonyms: seicht, untief
    Antonym: tief
    flaches Wassershallow water
    eine flache Vertiefunga shallow indentation
  2. flat (wide and not high)
    Synonyms: niedrig, platt
    Antonym: hoch
    ein flacher Kuchena flat cake
    eine flache Landschafta flat landscape
  3. not steep; having little slope; comparatively plane and level
    Antonym: steil
    ein flaches Bergplateaua level mountain plateau
    ein flacher Anstiega slight ascent
  4. (figuratively) shallow, vapid (lacking intellectual or spiritual depth, refinement)
    Synonym: (slightly different) seicht
    Antonyms: tiefgeistig, tiefsinnig
    ein flacher Witz / ein Flachwitza shallow joke
    • 1964 November 9, Hannah Arendt, 10:30 from the start, in Das Thema, via Südwestrundfunk, interview with Joachim Fest:
      Wenn man dämonisiert, macht man sich nicht nur interessant, sondern man schreibt sich heimlich auch bereits eine Tiefe zu, die die anderen eben nicht haben. Die anderen sind so flach, dass sie Menschen nicht in den Gaskammern getötet haben. – Nun, das habe ich jetzt natürlich mit Absicht so gesagt, aber darauf kommt es ja hinaus.
      When you demonize , you don’t only make yourself interesting, but you also secretly ascribe to yourself a profundity which the others simply don’t have. The others are so shallow that they didn’t kill people in the gas chambers. – Well, of course I said it like this on purpose, but after all that’s what it comes down to.

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Further reading

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

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fleck.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflax/
  • Rhymes: -ax
  • Syllabification: flach

Noun

flach m inan

  1. spot
  2. position

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “flaχ”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 37
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “miejsce”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • flach”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022