malade

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See also: målade

French

FWOTD – 24 January 2021

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French malade, from Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.lad/
  • audio(file)

Adjective

malade (plural malades)

  1. ill, unwell, sick
    Elle est si malade qu’elle ne peut pas venir.
    She is so ill that she cannot come.
  2. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
    Synonyms: taré, cinglé, fou

Noun

malade m or f by sense (plural malades)

  1. an ill or sick person; a patient
  2. (informal) someone who is crazy; a nutcase
    • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:
      "Ciboire! Il a joui en l’étranglant! C’est un hostie de malade!."
      "What the hell! He came while strangling him. He's a damn nutcase!"
  3. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
    Synonyms: fou m, folle f
    C’est un malade de cinéma. ― He's a cinema nut.

Related terms

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French malade.

Pronunciation

Adjective

malade (strong nominative masculine singular malader, not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, dated) ill, unwell, sick

Declension

Positive forms of malade (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist malade sie ist malade es ist malade sie sind malade
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative malader malade malades malade
genitive maladen malader maladen malader
dative maladem malader maladem maladen
accusative maladen malade malades malade
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der malade die malade das malade die maladen
genitive des maladen der maladen des maladen der maladen
dative dem maladen der maladen dem maladen den maladen
accusative den maladen die malade das malade die maladen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein malader eine malade ein malades (keine) maladen
genitive eines maladen einer maladen eines maladen (keiner) maladen
dative einem maladen einer maladen einem maladen (keinen) maladen
accusative einen maladen eine malade ein malades (keine) maladen

Further reading

  • “malade” in Duden online
  • “malade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norman

Etymology

From Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Adjective

malade m or f

  1. (Jersey) ill

Related terms

Old French

Adjective

malade m (oblique and nominative feminine singular malade)

  1. ill, unwell, sick

Descendants

  • French: malade
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