impertinent

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French impertinent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪm.ˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/
• IPA^(key): /ɪm.ˈpɝ.tɨ.nənt/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

impertinent (comparative more impertinent, superlative most impertinent)

1. insolent, ill-mannered
   • (Can we date this quote by Tillotson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     things that are impertinent to us

   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     How impertinent that grief was which served no end!

2. irrelevant (opposite of pertinent)

Usage notes

• Although historically, definition 2 was the original meaning (derived from the French below), the meaning gradually changed to definition 1. More recently general usage has come to once again incorporate definition 2. Many older speakers will consider definition 2 incorrect. The construction "not pertinent" is one possible alternative.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cheeky

Translations

insolent, ill-mannered

• Armenian: անպատկառ (hy) (anpatkaṙ), հանդուգն (hy) (handugn)
• Bulgarian: нагъл (bg) (nagǎl), нахален (bg) (nahalen)
• Catalan: impertinent (ca)
• Czech: nestydatý m, drzý (cs) m
• Danish: uforskammet
• Dutch: impertinent (nl)
• Esperanto: malrespekta
• Finnish: asiaton (fi)
• German: unverschämt (de)
• Hungarian: szemtelen (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: brusanta, dosartha, sonnta, tagrach
• Latin: procax
• Maori: whakatīkai
• Polish: impertynencki (pl) m
• Portuguese: impertinente (pt)
• Russian: де́рзкий (ru) (dérzkij), наха́льный (ru) (naxálʹnyj), на́глый (ru) (náglyj)
• Slovak: impertinentný, bezočivý
• Spanish: impertinente (es), maleducado (es)
• Swedish: uppstudsig (sv), oförskämd (sv), näsvis (sv), impertinent (sv)
• Tagalog: balaugi

irrelevant

• Bulgarian: неуместен, неподходящ (neumesten, nepodhodjašt)
• Czech: nemístný (cs) m
• Danish: uvedkommende, irrelevant
• Finnish: epärelevantti (fi), asiaankuulumaton (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: irrelevant (de), unwichtig (de)
• Hungarian: lényegtelen (hu)
• Polish: niestosowny (pl) m, niemający związku m
• Russian: неуме́стный (ru) (neuméstnyj), неподходя́щий (ru) (nepodxodjáščij), неотнося́щийся (neotnosjáščijsja)
• Slovak: irelevantný (sk), nepodstatný
• Swedish: ovidkommande (sv), irrelevant (sv)

Noun

impertinent (plural impertinents)

1. An impertinent individual.
   • (Can we date this quote by Maria Edgeworth and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     comfortably recessed from curious impertinents

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

impertinent (comparative impertinenter, superlative impertinentst)

1. insolent, ill-mannered

Inflection

Declension of impertinent
uninflected	impertinent
inflected	impertinente
comparative	impertinenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		impertinent	impertinenter	het impertinentst het impertinentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	impertinente	impertinentere	impertinentste
	n. sing.	impertinent	impertinenter	impertinentste
	plural	impertinente	impertinentere	impertinentste
definite		impertinente	impertinentere	impertinentste
partitive		impertinents	impertinenters	—

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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Adjective

impertinent (feminine impertinente, masculine plural impertinents, feminine plural impertinentes)

1. insolent, ill-mannered

Further reading

• “impertinent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

impertinent (comparative impertinenter, superlative am impertinentesten)

1. insolent, ill-mannered

Related terms

• Impertinenz

Further reading

• “impertinent” in Duden online