salonfähig
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German salonfähig.
Adjective
salonfähig (not comparable)
- Acceptable for polite society.
- 1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 33:
- Wits and miniaturists have applied their talents to rendering languages, perhaps more crucially now as direct ethnic derogation is no longer salonfähig.
- 2017, Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, Routledge (→ISBN), page 130:
- Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.
- 1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 33:
Translations
appropriate in polite company
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Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from German salonfähig.
Adjective
salonfähig
See also
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German salonfähig.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
salonfähig (comparative salonfähiger, superlative salonfähigst)
Inflection
Declension of salonfähig | ||||
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uninflected | salonfähig | |||
inflected | salonfähige | |||
comparative | salonfähiger | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | salonfähig | salonfähiger | het salonfähigst het salonfähigste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | salonfähige | salonfähigere | salonfähigste |
n. sing. | salonfähig | salonfähiger | salonfähigste | |
plural | salonfähige | salonfähigere | salonfähigste | |
definite | salonfähige | salonfähigere | salonfähigste | |
partitive | salonfähigs | salonfähigers | — |
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zaˈlõːˌfɛːɪç/, /zaˈlɔŋˌfɛːɪç/, /zaˈloːnˌfɛːɪç/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /-ˌfeːɪç/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
- IPA(key): /-ˌfɛːɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: sa‧lon‧fä‧hig
Adjective
salonfähig (comparative salonfähiger, superlative am salonfähigsten)
- socially acceptable; presentable
- 2017, Peter Untucht, DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch Reiseführer Freiburg und die Regio, Dumont Reiseverlag, →ISBN, page 55:
- Mit seinen »Alemannischen Gedichten« (1803) hat Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826) den Dialekt literarisch salonfähig gemacht.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2019 August 14, “Klimaleugner werden häufiger zitiert als Klimaforscher”, in Die Zeit[1]:
- Doch auch in Europa sind Zweifel am menschengemachten Klimawandel in der Politik zunehmend salonfähig. Wie eine Anfang des Jahres veröffentlichte Studie ergab, stehen vor allem rechte oder rechtspopulistische Parteien dem Klimaschutz grundsätzlich ablehnend gegenüber.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2019 September 7, “"Ich fühle mich, als ob ich einer riesigen Bedrohung gegenüberstehe"”, in Die Zeit[2]:
- Mir hat gefehlt, dass die Leute den Ernst der Lage sehen: Jede vierte Person in Sachsen wählt eine stark rechtspopulistische bis rechtsradikale Partei, und parallel dazu werden rassistische Aussagen immer salonfähiger.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Mit seiner gewinnenden Art versucht er seine extreme Ansichten salonfähig zu machen.
- With his charming character he tried to make his extreme views salonfähig.
Declension
Descendants
- → Danish: salonfähig
- → Dutch: salonfähig
- → English: salonfähig
- → Finnish: salonkikelpoinen
- → Hungarian: szalonképes (calque)
Further reading
- “salonfähig” in Duden online
- “salonfähig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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