frappant
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French frappant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]frappant (comparative frappanter, superlative frappantst)
Declension
[edit]Declension of frappant | ||||
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uninflected | frappant | |||
inflected | frappante | |||
comparative | frappanter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | frappant | frappanter | het frappantst het frappantste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | frappante | frappantere | frappantste |
n. sing. | frappant | frappanter | frappantste | |
plural | frappante | frappantere | frappantste | |
definite | frappante | frappantere | frappantste | |
partitive | frappants | frappanters | — |
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[edit]References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “frappant”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]frappant (feminine frappante, masculine plural frappants, feminine plural frappantes)
- striking; noticeable; remarkable
- en contraste frappant ― in stark contrast
Descendants
[edit]Participle
[edit]frappant
Further reading
[edit]- “frappant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French frappant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]frappant (strong nominative masculine singular frappanter, comparative frappanter, superlative am frappantesten)
- (more learned, formal) Alternative form of frappierend (“striking, astonishing, impressive, remarkable”)
- eine frappante Ähnlichkeit ― a striking similarity
- ein frappantes Ergebnis ― a remarkable result
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of frappant
Comparative forms of frappant
Superlative forms of frappant
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French frappant.
Adjective
[edit]frappant (not comparable)
- striking (creating a strong impression)
- Synonym: frapperande
- en frappant likhet
- a striking similarity
Declension
[edit]Inflection of frappant | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | frappant | — | — |
Neuter singular | frappant | — | — |
Plural | frappanta | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | frappante | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | frappante | — | — |
All | frappanta | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
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