glad

English

Etymology

From Old English glæd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladdest)

1. pleased, happy, satisfied

Antonyms

• sorrowful
• sad
• downcast
• peevish
• cranky
• heavy
• depressed

Derived terms

• engladden
• gladden
• gladly

Translations

pleased, happy, satisfied

• Albanian: gëzuar (sq)
• Catalan: alegre
• Chamicuro: pya'kijnani
• Czech: rád (cs)
• Danish: glad (da)
• Dutch: blij (nl), verheugd (nl)
• Faroese: glaður (fo) m, glað (fo) f
• Finnish: iloinen (fi)
• French: content (fr), heureux (fr)
• German: froh (de), fröhlich (de)
• Hungarian: vidám (hu)
• Interlingua: gaudiose (ia)
• Irish: áthasach, as a predicative, usually expressed by a construction with the noun áthas (ga) m
• Italian: fiero (it), soddisfatto (it), lieto (it)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پێخۆشحاڵ (ku) (péxosh-hall)

• Latvian: priecīgs (lv)
• Lithuanian: džiaugsmingas (lt)
• Mandarin: (traditional) 高興 (cmn), (simplified) 高兴 (cmn) (gāoxìng)
• Nahuatl: paquini (nah), paqui (nah)
• Portuguese: grato (pt), feliz (pt), alegre (pt), contente (pt)
• Romanian: bucuros (ro), vesel (ro)
• Russian: счастливый (ru) (sčastlivyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: zȁdovōljan (sh)
• Slovene: vesel (sl)
• Spanish: contento (es)
• Swedish: glad (sv), nöjd (sv), belåten (sv)
• Thai: ดีใจ (th) (dii-jai)
• Volapük: fredik (vo)

Verb

glad (third-person singular simple present glads, present participle gladding, simple past and past participle gladded)

1. (transitive) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3

     God that glads the lover's heart,

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: horse · send · peace · #569: glad · hair · ran · important

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Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton gloat (“kingdom, fortune”). Akin to Cornish gulat, Welsh Gwald, and Old Irish flaith Flath (“head”), from *wla-to- or *wla-ti-, which are cognates to Latin Valerius (“power”), Gothic wal-d-, German walten (“rule”), English to wield, Old Slavonic Vlada (“I rule, power”), and Lithuanian vald-yti (“rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlɑ ː t/

Noun

glad

1. (archaic) a territory or country
2. a feudal domain
3. fortune
4. heritage

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlad/, [ɡ̊lað]

Adjective

glad (neuter glad, definite and plural glade, comparative gladere, superlative gladest)

1. happy, glad

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glad (comparative gladder, superlative gladst)

1. smooth, polished
2. slippery

Declension

Declension of glad

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		glad	gladder
neuter singular	indefinite	glad	gladder
	definite	gladde	gladdere	gladste	gladst, gladste
common singular		gladde	gladdere	gladste	gladste
plural		gladde	gladdere	gladste	gladste
partitive		glads	gladders

Derived terms

• gladheid
• gladjanus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɽɑː/, IPA: /ɡlɑː/

Adjective

glad (masculine glad; feminine glad; neuter glad; plural glade; comparative gladere; superlative gladest)

1. happy, glad

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gladaz

Adjective

glad

1. glad

Declension

Declension of glad

Strong declension
	masculine		neuter		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	glad	glade	glad	glade	glad	gladu
accusative	gladan	glade	glad	glade	glada	gladu
genitive	glades	gladarō	glades	gladarō	gladaro	gladarō
dative	gladumu	gladum	gladumu	gladum	gladaro	gladum
Weak declension
	masculine		neuter		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	glado	gladu	glada	gladu	glada	gladu
accusative	gladun	gladun	glada	gladun	gladun	gladun
genitive	gladun	gladonō	gladun	gladonō	gladun	gladonō
dative	gladun	gladum	gladun	gladum	gladun	gladum

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *goldъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡlâːd/

Noun

glȃd f (Cyrillic spelling гла̑д)

1. hunger

Declension

    declension of glad

	singular	plural
nominative	glad	gladi
genitive	gladi	gladi
dative	gladi	gladima
accusative	glad	gladi
vocative	gladi	gladi
locative	gladi	gladima
instrumental	glađu / gladi	gladima

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse glaðr, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ɡlɑːd/

Adjective

glad (comparative gladare, superlative gladast)

1. happy, glad

Declension

Declension of glad

Inflections of glad		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	glad	gladare		gladast
	Neuter	glatt
Definite singular	Masc.	glade		gladaste
	All	glada		gladaste
Plural		glada		gladaste