echt
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)
- proper, real, genuine, true to type
- 2009, January 18, “Ross Douthat”, in When Buckley Met Reagan[1]:
- An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8
- I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
Translations[edit]
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Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.
Adjective[edit]
echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of echt | ||||
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uninflected | echt | |||
inflected | echte | |||
comparative | echter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | echt | echter | het echtst het echtste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | echte | echtere | echtste |
n. sing. | echt | echter | echtste | |
plural | echte | echtere | echtste | |
definite | echte | echtere | echtste | |
partitive | echts | echters | — |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
echt m (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ächt (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (“lawful”), from ē (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft- → -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
echt (strong nominative masculine singular echter, comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)
- authentic, genuine, true
- Die Jacke ist aus echtem Leder.
- The jacket is made of genuine leather.
- 1994, “Es möchte echt sein”, in In Echt, performed by Die Sterne:
- Hallo Lexikon, erklär mir wie das funktioniert / Es möchte echt sein / Echt
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- (chiefly colloquial) real; factual
- Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich
- Der Film ist nah an der echten Geschichte.
- The film is close to the real story.
- (mathematics) proper
- echte Teilmenge ― proper subset
Declension[edit]
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist echt | sie ist echt | es ist echt | sie sind echt | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | echter | echte | echtes | echte |
genitive | echten | echter | echten | echter | |
dative | echtem | echter | echtem | echten | |
accusative | echten | echte | echtes | echte | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der echte | die echte | das echte | die echten |
genitive | des echten | der echten | des echten | der echten | |
dative | dem echten | der echten | dem echten | den echten | |
accusative | den echten | die echte | das echte | die echten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein echter | eine echte | ein echtes | (keine) echten |
genitive | eines echten | einer echten | eines echten | (keiner) echten | |
dative | einem echten | einer echten | einem echten | (keinen) echten | |
accusative | einen echten | eine echte | ein echtes | (keine) echten |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist echter | sie ist echter | es ist echter | sie sind echter | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | echterer | echtere | echteres | echtere |
genitive | echteren | echterer | echteren | echterer | |
dative | echterem | echterer | echterem | echteren | |
accusative | echteren | echtere | echteres | echtere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der echtere | die echtere | das echtere | die echteren |
genitive | des echteren | der echteren | des echteren | der echteren | |
dative | dem echteren | der echteren | dem echteren | den echteren | |
accusative | den echteren | die echtere | das echtere | die echteren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein echterer | eine echtere | ein echteres | (keine) echteren |
genitive | eines echteren | einer echteren | eines echteren | (keiner) echteren | |
dative | einem echteren | einer echteren | einem echteren | (keinen) echteren | |
accusative | einen echteren | eine echtere | ein echteres | (keine) echteren |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: echt
Adverb[edit]
echt
- (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed
- Synonym: wirklich
- Das war echt gut. ― That was really good.
Further reading[edit]
Scots[edit]
Verb[edit]
echt
- Alternative form of aicht (“to own”)
References[edit]
- “echt, v.tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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