kleen

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • klään (eastern Moselle Franconian, except Westerwald)
  • klein (Kölsch; Westerwald)

Etymology

From Old High German kleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kleen (masculine kleene, feminine kleen, comparative kleener, superlative et kleenste)

  1. (Ripuarian, western Moselle Franconian) little; small
    Mer hann ene kleene Jaade hengerm Huus.
    We have a small garden behind our house.

Usage notes

  • Even in dialects that do not have a general n-deletion rule, kleen does commonly lose the final -n in the neuter nominative and accusative before consonants other than h—by analogy with the structure words een (one) and keen (no). Thus, for example, in Ripuarian: e klee bessje (a little bit).

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Central Franconian kleen, from Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kleen (comparative kleener, superlative kleenest)

  1. little; small
    Die Tass is zu kleen.
    The cup is too small.
    Sie hon zweu kleene Hunn.
    They have two little dogs.
    Er is noch en kleenes Kind.
    He is still a small child.

Declension

Declension of kleen (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
masculine feminine neuter plural
Weak inflection nominative kleen kleen kleen kleene
accusative kleene kleen kleen kleene
dative kleene kleene kleene kleene
Strong inflection nominative kleener kleene kleenes kleene
accusative kleene kleene kleenes kleene
dative kleenem kleener kleenem kleene

Antonyms

Further reading

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German kleine, from Old Saxon klēni, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī. Cognate to German and Dutch klein, English clean.

Adjective

kleen (comparative klener, superlative kleenst)

  1. small

Declension

The following declension only represents one of many possible dialectal grammars.

Synonyms