glat

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See also: glät and GLAT

Danish

Adjective

glat (neuter glat, plural and definite singular attributive glatte)

  1. slippery
    Pas på, her er glat.
  2. smooth
    Hans hage var glat.
  3. (calculus) differentiable everywhere

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German (*)glad, northern variant of glat, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz. The modern final -t is irregularly generalised from the uninflected stem.

Pronunciation

Adjective

glat (masculine glaten, neuter glat, comparative méi glat, superlative am glaatsten)

  1. smooth
    Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.
    The dog had a beautiful, smooth coat.
  2. slippery (e.g. because of ice or water)
    Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.
    He slipped on the slippery floor.

Declension

declension of glat
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass glat si ass glat et ass glat si si(nn) glat
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner glaten glat glat glat
independent without determiner glates glater
dative after any declined word glaten glater glaten glaten
as first declined word glatem glatem

Adverb

glat

  1. smoothly
  2. completely, downright

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glat

  1. bright

Descendants

  • Middle High German: glat
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