pikant

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈkɑnt/
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Adjective

pikant (comparative pikanter, superlative pikantst)

  1. hot, spicy, piquant
  2. piquant, savory

Declension

Declension of pikant
uninflected pikant
inflected pikante
comparative pikanter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial pikant pikanter het pikantst
het pikantste
indefinite m./f. sing. pikante pikantere pikantste
n. sing. pikant pikanter pikantste
plural pikante pikantere pikantste
definite pikante pikantere pikantste
partitive pikants pikanters

Synonyms

German

Etymology

From French piquant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pikant (strong nominative masculine singular pikanter, comparative pikanter, superlative am pikantesten)

  1. piquant

Declension

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French piquant.

Adjective

pikant (neuter singular pikant, definite singular and plural pikante)

  1. piquant

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French piquant.

Adjective

pikant (masculine and feminine pikant, neuter pikant, definite singular and plural pikante, comparative pikantare, indefinite superlative pikantast, definite superlative pikantaste)

  1. piquant

References

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French piquant.

Adjective

pikant (comparative pikantare, superlative pikantast)

  1. piquant (of taste, or titillating more generally, especially in a (somewhat) scandalous way)
    • 1968, Cornelis Vreeswijk (lyrics and music), “Personliga Person [Personal Person]”, in Tio vackra visor och Personliga Person [Ten beautiful songs and Personal Person]‎:
      ["Person" is pronounced like the last name "Persson" in this song] Personliga Person satt en morgon vid frukostbordet och läste i morgonbladet att det senaste lustmordet bjöd på en mängd pikanta detaljer. Mördaren hade använt vissa attiraljer. Dessa nämndes i bladet, och det var ju bra det.
      Personal Person sat one morning at the breakfast table and read in the morning paper that the latest lust murder offered a range of piquant details. The killer had used certain paraphernalia. These were mentioned in the paper, and that's good .
    1. zesty, tangy, spicy

Declension

Inflection of pikant
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular pikant pikantare pikantast
neuter singular pikant pikantare pikantast
plural pikanta pikantare pikantast
masculine plural2 pikante pikantare pikantast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 pikante pikantare pikantaste
all pikanta pikantare pikantaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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