populär

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See also: popular and populær

German

Etymology

From Latin populāris, from Latin populus (people, nation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpopuˈlɛːɐ̯/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
  • IPA(key): /ˌpopuˈleːɐ̯/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: po‧pu‧lär

Adjective

populär (strong nominative masculine singular populärer, comparative populärer, superlative am populärsten)

  1. (beloved or approved by the people) popular

Declension

Further reading

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

Luxembourgish

Adjective

populär (masculine populären, neuter populäert, comparative méi populär, superlative am populäersten)

  1. popular

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French populaire, from Latin populāris. Compare Norwegian and Danish populær, English popular.

Pronunciation

Adjective

populär (comparative populärare, superlative populärast)

  1. popular (widely liked)
    Synonym: (colloquial) poppis
  2. popular (aimed at ordinary people)

Declension

Inflection of populär
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular populär populärare populärast
neuter singular populärt populärare populärast
plural populära populärare populärast
masculine plural2 populäre populärare populärast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 populäre populärare populäraste
all populära populärare populäraste

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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