blues
See also: Blues
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
blues
Etymology 2
Noun
blues (uncountable)
- (usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
- I've got the blues today.
- The blues have hit her hard, and she won't get out of bed.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues...
- (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- Your blues is just like mine.
- Your blues are just like mine.
- (singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
- I've got the lonely man's blues.
- If you work here long enough, you'll have the butcher's blues just like me.
- (music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
- A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues.
- (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
- My next number is a blues in G.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
- The marched in their dress blues.
- (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
Derived terms
terms derived from blues
Translations
feeling of sadness
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musical form
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musical composition
See also
- (musical form): boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround
Etymology 3
Verb
blues
- third-person singular simple present indicative of blue
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
blues m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “blues” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
References
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
blues c (singular definite bluesen, not used in plural form)
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
blues
Declension
Inflection of blues (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | blues | bluesit | |
genitive | bluesin | bluesien | |
partitive | bluesia | blueseja | |
illative | bluesiin | blueseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | blues | bluesit | |
accusative | nom. | blues | bluesit |
gen. | bluesin | ||
genitive | bluesin | bluesien | |
partitive | bluesia | blueseja | |
inessive | bluesissa | blueseissa | |
elative | bluesista | blueseista | |
illative | bluesiin | blueseihin | |
adessive | bluesilla | blueseilla | |
ablative | bluesilta | blueseilta | |
allative | bluesille | blueseille | |
essive | bluesina | blueseina | |
translative | bluesiksi | blueseiksi | |
abessive | bluesitta | blueseitta | |
instructive | — | bluesein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
blues m (plural blues)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “blues”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
blues (plural bluesok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | blues | bluesok |
accusative | bluest | bluesokat |
dative | bluesnak | bluesoknak |
instrumental | blueszal | bluesokkal |
causal-final | bluesért | bluesokért |
translative | blueszá | bluesokká |
terminative | bluesig | bluesokig |
essive-formal | bluesként | bluesokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bluesban | bluesokban |
superessive | blueson | bluesokon |
adessive | bluesnál | bluesoknál |
illative | bluesba | bluesokba |
sublative | bluesra | bluesokra |
allative | blueshoz | bluesokhoz |
elative | bluesból | bluesokból |
delative | bluesról | bluesokról |
ablative | bluestól | bluesoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
bluesé | bluesoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
blueséi | bluesokéi |
Possessive forms of blues | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bluesom | bluesaim |
2nd person sing. | bluesod | bluesaid |
3rd person sing. | bluesa | bluesai |
1st person plural | bluesunk | bluesaink |
2nd person plural | bluesotok | bluesaitok |
3rd person plural | bluesuk | bluesaik |
Derived terms
Further reading
- blues in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Italian
Etymology
Noun
blues m (uncountable)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
blues m (invariable)
- blues (musical form)
Spanish
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] English
Pronunciation
Noun
blues m pl (plural only) or blues m (uncountable)
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
blues c
Declension
Declension of blues | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | blues | bluesen | — | — |
Genitive | blues | bluesens | — | — |
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- en:Australian rules football
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- Birmingham English
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- en:Blues music
- en:Emotions
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