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fein

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See also: Fein, fèin, féin, fèin-, and féin-

English

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Noun

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fein

  1. Misspelling of fiend.

German

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Etymology

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    From Middle High German fīn, from Old French fin, ultimately from Latin finis. See English fine for more.

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    Adjective

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    fein (strong nominative masculine singular feiner, comparative feiner, superlative am feinsten)

    1. fine (not rough, coarse, or thick)
      Antonym: grob
      sehr feines Mehlvery fine flour
      ein feiner Sinna fine sense
    2. (dated, except in certain expressions) fine; very good; as it should be
      ein feiner Kerla fine young man
    3. refined; posh; fancy
      ein feines Restauranta fancy restaurant
    4. (often dative reflexive) too good (not willing to do something or associate with it because one thinks it beneath one) [with zu (+ dative) ‘for an act’ or für (+ accusative) ‘for someone’]
      Er ist (sich) zu fein zum Abwaschen.
      He thinks himself too good for doing the dishes.
      Er ist (sich) zu fein für uns.
      He thinks himself too good for our company.

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    Descendants

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    • Czech: fajn
    • Kashubian: fëjn
    • Lithuanian: fainas
    • Polish: fajny
    • Greater Polish: fejn
    • Romanian: fain
    • Serbo-Croatian: fajn
    • Slovincian: fejn

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    Luxembourgish

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    Etymology

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    From Middle High German fīn, from Old French fin. Doublet of dated féng (rather). The form fäin is from the uninflected stem, while féng developed before vocalic suffixes. (Adverbial féng might continue *fīne formed by analogy with such pairs as Middle High German lanc, lange or balt, balde.) The form fein cannot have developed regularly in any position and therefore must have been influenced by German fein.

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    Adjective

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    fein (masculine feinen, neuter feint, comparative méi fein, superlative am feinsten)

    1. nice, friendly
      Synonyms: frëndlech, gentil
    2. fine, delicate, subtle
      Synonym: reng

    Old French

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    Etymology

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    From Latin faenum.

    Noun

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    fein oblique singularm (oblique plural feinz, nominative singular feinz, nominative plural fein)

    1. hay

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    Plautdietsch

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    Adjective

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    fein

    1. nice, good, fine

    Romansh

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    Etymology

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    From Latin fēnum, from faenum.

    Noun

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    fein m

    1. (Sursilvan) hay

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    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) fanar