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English

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Pronunciation

Noun

liter (plural liters)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

Translations

cubic decimeter — see litre

Anagrams

Danish

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Noun

liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

  1. a litre

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation

Noun

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

  1. litre

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Aukan: liti
  • → Caribbean Javanese: liter
  • → Indonesian: liter

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

liter (plural literek)

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative liter literek
accusative litert litereket
dative liternek litereknek
instrumental literrel literekkel
causal-final literért literekért
translative literré literekké
terminative literig literekig
essive-formal literként literekként
essive-modal — —
inessive literben literekben
superessive literen litereken
adessive liternél litereknél
illative literbe literekbe
sublative literre literekre
allative literhez literekhez
elative literből literekből
delative literről literekről
ablative litertől literektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		literé litereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		literéi literekéi
Possessive forms of liter
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. literem litereim
2nd person sing. litered litereid
3rd person sing. litere literei
1st person plural literünk litereink
2nd person plural literetek litereitek
3rd person plural literük litereik

Derived terms

Compound words

Further reading

  • liter 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

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: li‧têr

Noun

liter (first-person possessive literku, second-person possessive litermu, third-person possessive liternya)

  1. litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ.

Derived terms

Further reading

Ladin

Verb

liter

  1. To vote

Conjugation

  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of liter (first conjugation)
infinitive liter, lité
auxiliary verb avei gerund litan
past participle lité
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie tu el / ela nos vos ei / eles
present lite, liteie lites, liteies lita, liteia, litea liton liteis lita, liteia
imperfect litove litoves litova litovan litovais litova
future litaré litaras litarà litaron litareis litarà
subjunctive che ie che tu che el / ela che nos che vos che ei / eles
present lite, liteie lites, liteies lite, liteie liton liteis lite
imperfect litasse litasses litassa litassan litassais litassa
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— lita, liteia — liton litede —

Latin

Verb

liter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

  1. a litre

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literane or litrane)

  1. a litre
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

liter

  1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite

Etymology 3

Noun

lìter m

  1. (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt

References

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

Noun

liter f

  1. letter of the alphabet
  2. (in the plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
  3. letter, epistle, dispatch
  4. (in the plural) books, histories

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative literL litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Vocative literL litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Accusative litirN litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Genitive litr(a)eH literL literN
Dative litirL litrib litrib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
liter
also lliter after a proclitic 		liter
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

liter m inan (genitive singular litra, nominative plural litre, genitive plural litrov, declension pattern of stroj)

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Declension of liter
singular plural
nominative liter litre
genitive litra litrov
dative litru litrom
accusative liter litre
locative litri litroch
instrumental litrom litrami

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “liter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

Noun

lítər m inan

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. líter
gen. sing. lítra
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		líter lítra lítri
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		lítra lítrov lítrov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		lítru lítroma lítrom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		líter lítra lítre
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		lítru lítrih lítrih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		lítrom lítroma lítri

Swedish

Alternative forms

Dialects

Pronunciation

Noun

liter c

  1. (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
  2. litre; an amount of 1 litre of something

Declension

Declension of liter 2
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative liter litern litrar litrarna
Genitive liters literns litrars litrarnas

Tatar

Noun

liter

  1. litre.

Declension

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declension of liter
singular plural
nominative liter liter
genitive liter liter
dative liter liter
accusative liter liter
locative liter liter
ablative liter liter
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