Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
krum
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
Etymology 2
Verb
krum
- imperative of krumme
References
- “krum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Related terms
- krumme (verb)
References
- “krum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German krum, from Old Saxon krumb, from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.
Adjective
krum (comparative krummare, superlative krummast)
- (of a person) having a hunched back
- bent out of shape, crooked (of for example a tree or a body part)
- (archaic) bent, curved (in general)
Usage notes
Often a bit old-fashioned with connotations of being from hard work or old age in (sense 1).
Declension
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.
Derived terms
- krumbukt
- krumelur (“figure made of squiggly lines”)
- krumpassare (“calipers”)
References
- krum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- krum in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Remove ads
Tok Pisin
Adjective
krum
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads