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{{also|Clever}}
==English==

===Etymology===
From [[East Anglia]]n dialectal English {{m|en|cliver||expert at seizing}}, from {{inh|en|enm|cliver||tenacious}}.

* perhaps from {{inh|en|ang|*clifer}}, {{m|ang|clibbor||clinging}};
* or perhaps from {{der|en|nl|-}}, {{der|en|nds|-}}, or East/{{der|en|stq|-}} (compare {{m|stq|kluftich|t=clever, prudent}}, probably derived from {{der|en|gmw-pro|*kleuban|t=to cleave, split}});
* or dialectal {{der|en|no|klover||ready, skillful}}, itself borrowed from {{der|en|gml|klever}}, related to {{m|gml|kleven|t=to stick}}, from {{der|en|osx| klibōn}}, from {{der|en|gmw-pro|*klibēn}}, related to the Old English word above;
* possibly influenced by {{cog|ang|clifer||claw, hand}} (compare {{m|ang|clawian|t=to claw}}).<ref>{{R:Etymonline}}</ref>

Related to {{l|en|cleave}}. Perhaps influenced by {{cog|cy|celfydd||talented, dexterous, expert}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈklɛvə/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈklɛvɚ/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-clever.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛvə(ɹ)|s=2}}
* {{hyph|en|clev|er}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj|er|more}}

# [[nimble|Nimble]] with hands or body; [[skillful]]; [[adept]].
#:''My dad is quite '''clever''' with his hands, especially at carpentry''.
#* {{ante|1898}}, {{w|Francis James Child}} (collator), ''[[s:Child's Ballads/198|Child's Ballads]]'', 198: "Bonny John Seton",
#*: The Highland men, they're '''clever''' men <br> At handling sword and shield,
# Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; [[intelligent]].
# Mentally quick and [[resourceful]]; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
#: {{ux|en|'''clever''' like a fox}}
#: {{ux|en|With a '''clever''' lawyer, she could easily be acquitted.}}
#* '''1890''', {{w|Joseph Jacobs}} (collator), ''[[s:English Fairy Tales/Molly Whuppie|Molly Whuppie]]'', ''English Fairy Tales'',
#*: The youngest of the three strange lassies was called Molly Whuppie, and she was very '''clever'''. She noticed that before they went to bed the giant put straw ropes round her neck and her sisters', and round his own lassies' necks, he put gold chains. So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound. Then she slipped out of the bed, and took the straw ropes off her own and her sisters' necks, and took the gold chains off the giant's lassies. She then put the straw ropes on the giant's lassies and the gold on herself and her sisters, and lay down.
# [[smart|Smart]], [[intelligent]], or [[witty]]; mentally [[quick]] or [[sharp]].
#* '''19th c''', {{w|Charles Kingsley}}, ''A Farewell'',
#*: Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be '''clever'''; <br> Do noble things, not dream them all day long: <br> And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=w:John Timbs|title=School-Days of Eminent Men|page=177|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_QEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA177&dq=%22Though+there+were+many+clever+men+in+England%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=XNDDTqamEuyHmQWR46GHCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Though%20there%20were%20many%20clever%20men%20in%20England%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false|passage=[[w:Thomas Babington Macaulay|Lord Macaulay]] has said of Bunyan: “though there were many '''clever''' men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of these minds produced ‘The Paradise Lost;’ the other, ‘The Pilgrim's Progress.’”}}
#* '''1912''', {{w|Fyodor Dostoevsky}}, {{w|Constance Garnett}} (translator), ''[[s:The Brothers Karamazov/Book V/Chapter 7|The Brothers Karamazov]]'', Book V, Chapter 7: "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a '''Clever''' Man",
#*: I would have sent Alyosha, but what use is Alyosha in a thing like that? I send you just because you are a '''clever''' fellow. Do you suppose I don't see that? You know nothing about timber, but you've got an eye.
# {{lb|en|archaic}} {{cap|sane}}; in one's right mind.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1892|author=Margaret Oliphant|title=The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent|page=263
|passage=He was not '''clever''', poor fellow, he did not know what questions to ask; he asked the same questions again and again. He continued to show his own troubled thoughts, and the vague dread in his mind, {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|of objects or actions}} Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.
#: {{ux|en|This is a simple but '''clever''' trick to solve the problem.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-22|volume=407|issue=8841|page=70|magazine=w:The Economist
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers Engineers of a different kind]
|passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.{{...}}Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. '''Clever''' financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.}}
# {{lb|en|of objects or actions}} Showing [[inventiveness]] or [[originality]]; [[witty]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1816|author=w:Jane Austen|title=[[s:Emma/Volume 1/Chapter 9|Emma]]|volume=1|chapter=9|passage=Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in. "So many '''clever''' riddles as there used to be when he was young--he wondered he could not remember them! but he hoped he should in time." And it always ended in "Kitty, a fair but frozen maid."}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1919|author=[[w:W. Somerset Maugham|William Somerset Maugham]]|title=[[s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter III|The Moon and Sixpence]]|chapter=III|passage=I felt they expected me to say '''clever''' things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=April 10, 2011|author=Alistair Magowan|work=BBC Sport
|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/9446263.stm Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle]
|passage=Just before the break Villa were denied a second goal when Bent had the ball in the net, although he was ruled offside after Jean Makoun's '''clever''' pass.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2014-04-11|author=[http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/ron-charles Ron Charles]
|volume=190|issue=18|page=37|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly
|title=[http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/david-grands-mount-terminus-reviewed-by-ron-charles/2014/03/18/6bdce9be-a98f-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html David Grand’s ‘Mount Terminus’]
|passage=The Rosenbloom Loop is a '''clever''' little device, but it’s an even more '''clever''' symbol of the role that discipline plays in the creation of illusion: the persistence of vision that makes sequential still images appear to move.}}
# {{lb|en|UK|colloquial|chiefly in the negative}} Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Colin Ross|title=Death of the Docks|page=196|passage=But at that moment I knew it was all over for me, I had never thought that this day would come, but it had and I was not feeling too '''clever'''. In fact I had to escape to a nearby toilet to be sick.}}
#* {{quote-av|en|year=2019|author=Neil Forsyth|actor=Jamie Sives|role=Jake McCall|title=Guilt|season=1|number=1|time=30:07|text=Right, and no, because the solicitor has told her that Walter's legs didn't look too '''clever''', which, apparently, everyone's putting down to a fall, thankfully.}}
# {{lb|en|US|dated}} [[good-natured|Good-natured]]; [[obliging]].
# {{lb|en|anthropology|of an Aboriginal Australian}} Possessing [[magical]] abilities.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1904|title=Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales|volume=XXXVIII|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oxEWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22When+a+clever+man+is+out+hunting%22+-intitle:%22%22&dq=%22When+a+clever+man+is+out+hunting%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=zMnDTsyVL63NmAXKx9iUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y|page=255
|passage=When a '''clever''' man is out hunting and comes across the tracks of, say, a kangaroo, he follows them along and talks to the footprints all the time for the purpose of injecting magic into the animal which made them.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1947|journal=Oceania,|volume=16-17|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KcUZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+two+women,+who+were+clever%22+-intitle:%22%22&dq=%22The+two+women,+who+were+clever%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=zsvDTvudHqGJmQWawIjnCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg|page=330
|passage=Prior to this, the two women, who were “'''clever''',” and possessed a certain amount of magical “power,”{{...}}.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1991|author=John & Sue Erbacher|title=Aborigines of the Rainforest|passage=Fred is the '''clever''' fellow or tribal doctor who practises with the Kuku-Yalanji people. The tribal doctor’s work includes curing sickness, finding out the causes of death, predicting the future and making and stopping rain.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[fit|Fit]]; [[suitable]]; having [[propriety]].
#* '''18th c''', {{w|Jonathan Swift}}, {{w|Alexander Pope}} (later lines), ''Imitation of Horace'', 1852, {{w|Charles Knight (publisher)|Charles Knight}} (collator), ''Half-hours with the Best Authors'', Volume 4, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f_0pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA188&dq=%22sound+more+clever+/+To+me+and+to+my+heirs+forever%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8rYuotpvaAhUn9YMKHZPsB-gQ6AEIQjAF#v=onepage&q=%22sound%20more%20clever%20%2F%20To%20me%20and%20to%20my%20heirs%20forever%22&f=false page 188],
#*: I can't but think 'twould sound more '''clever''', <br> To me and to my heirs forever.
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} Well-shaped; [[handsome]].
#* {{RQ:Arbuthnot Law|part=3|chapter=The Character of John Bull's Sister Peg, with the Quarrels that Happen'd between Master and Miss, in Their Childhood|page=10|passage=Tho' the Girl vvas a tight, '''clever''' VVench as any vvas, and thro' her pale Looks, you might diſcern Spirit and Vivacity, vvhich made her not indeed a perfect Beauty, but ſomething that vvas agreeable.}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|smart, intelligent or witty}} {{l|en|quick-witted}}, {{l|en|sharp-witted}}
** See also [[Thesaurus:intelligent]]
* {{sense|resourceful, perhaps cunning}} {{l|en|cunning}}, {{l|en|street-smart}}
* {{sense|nimble or skillful}} {{l|en|adroit}}, {{l|en|talented}}
* {{sense|showing inventiveness}} {{l|en|ingenious}}
* {{sense|possessing magical powers}} {{l|en|magical}}

====Antonyms====
* {{antsense|smart, intelligent or witty}} {{l|en|dull}}, {{l|en|stupid}}
* {{antsense|resourceful, perhaps cunning}} {{l|en|ineffectual}}, {{l|en|naive}}
* {{antsense|nimble or skillful}} {{l|en|clumsy}}
* {{antsense|showing inventiveness}}
* {{antsense|possessing magical powers}} {{l|en|natural}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|cleverish|cleversome|cleversticks|hyperclever|overclever|ultraclever|unclever|as clever as a cartload of monkeys}}
* {{l|en|box clever}}
* {{l|en|cleverality}}
* {{l|en|cleverly}}
* {{l|en|clever arse}}
* {{l|en|clever-clever}}
* {{l|en|clever clogs}}
* {{l|en|clever dick}}
* {{l|en|cleverness}}
* {{l|en|too clever by half}}
{{der-bottom}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|de|clever|bor=1}}
* {{desc|li|klevver|bor=1}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|nimble with hands or body}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|сръчен}}, {{t+|bg|изкусен}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|တော်|sc=Mymr}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|àgil}}, {{t+|ca|hàbil}}, {{t+|ca|destre}}
* Danish: {{t|da|kvik}}, {{t+|da|rask}}, {{t|da|snild}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kätevä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|habile}}, {{t+|fr|agile}}, {{t+|fr|adroit}}, {{t+|fr|adroite|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|geschickt}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ügyes}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|巧い|tr=umai|sc=Jpan}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|hábil}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|иску́сный}}, {{t+|ru|ло́вкий}}, {{t+|ru|уме́лый}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tapaidh}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ágil}}, {{t+|es|hábil}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|erevu}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|becerikli}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|вмі́лий}}, {{t+|uk|впра́вний}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|adjete|m|f}}, {{t+|wa|abeye|m|f}}, {{t+|wa|adroet|m}}, {{t+|wa|adroete|f}}, {{t|wa|subtil|m}}, {{t|wa|subtile|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|skillful}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|способен}}, {{t+|bg|даровит}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|llest}}
* Danish: {{t|da|smart}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nokkela}}
* French: {{t+|fr|talentueux}}
* German: {{t+|de|geschickt}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|selvä}}, {{t|izh|huima}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|talentoso}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|îndemânatic}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|спосо́бный}}, {{t+|ru|дарови́тый}}, {{t+|ru|уме́лый}}, {{t+|ru|одарённый}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tapaidh}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|listo}}, {{t+|es|talentoso}}, {{t+|es|habiloso}}, {{t+|es|habilidoso}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|erevu}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|зді́бний}}, {{t|uk|вмі́лий}}, {{t|uk|обдаро́ваний}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|capåbe|m|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|trapella|f}}, {{t+|ca|cuca|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ovela}}, {{t+|fi|nokkela}}
* French: {{t+|fr|malin|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|clever}}, {{t+|de|ausgekocht}} {{qualifier|informal}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|kænn}}
* Latin: {{t|la|versūtus}}, {{t|la|dolōsus}}, {{t|la|vafer}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|mūrere}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|चतुर}}
* Somali: {{t+|so|xariif}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|habiloso}}, {{t+|es|pillo}}, {{t+|es|listo}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|cingöz}}, {{t+|tr|uyanık}} {{qualifier|informal}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|mentally quick or sharp}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|slim}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|i zgjuar}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|ذَكِيّ}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|شاطر}}
*: Moroccan Arabic: {{t|ary|دكي|m|tr=dki}}, {{t|ary|مطور|m|tr=mṭuwwar}}
*: South Levantine Arabic: {{t|ajp|شاطر|tr=sháṭer}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|խելացի}}, {{t+|hy|խելոք}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|বুধিয়ক}}
* Asturian: {{t|ast|llistu}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|ağıllı}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|аҡыллы|sc=Cyrl}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|разу́мны}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|চতুর}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|у́мен}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|လျင်|sc=Mymr}}, {{t+|my|ဉာဏ်ကောင်း|sc=Mymr}}, {{t+|my|ပါးလျား|sc=Mymr}}, {{t+|my|အကြံပိုင်|sc=Mymr}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|llest}}, {{t+|ca|espavilat}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|聰明|tr=cōngming}}, {{t+|cmn|伶俐|tr=línglì}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|chytrý}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|klog}}, {{t|da|smart}}
* Darkinjung: {{t|xda|girrâchi}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|slim}}, {{t+|nl|kloek}}, {{t+|nl|scherpzinnig}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|sprita}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|nutikas}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nokkela}}, {{t+|fi|ovela}}, {{t+|fi|älykäs}}
* French: {{t+|fr|intelligent}}, {{t+|fr|malin|m}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ჭკვიანი}}
* German: {{t+|de|patent}}, {{t+|de|klug}}, {{t+|de|gescheit}}, {{t+|de|clever}}, {{t+|de|schlau}}, {{t+|de|pfiffig}}
*: Alemannic German: {{t|gsw|arig}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐍃𐌽𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|έξυπνος}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|פיקח|tr=piqe'akh}}, {{t+|he|חָכָם|tr=khakhám}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|होशियार}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|okos}}, {{t+|hu|eszes}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|snjall}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|tarkka}}, {{t|izh|meelövä}}, {{t|izh|selvä}}, {{t|izh|kavala}}, {{t|izh|huima}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|cliste}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|furbo}}, {{t+|it|astuto}}, {{t+|it|sveglio}}, {{t+|it|scaltro}}, {{t+|it|brillante}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|賢い|tr=kashikoi|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|敏い|tr=satoi|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|利口|alt=利口な|tr=rikō na|sc=Jpan}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|ақылды|sc=Cyrl}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ឆ្លាត|tr=chlaat|sc=Khmr}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|똑똑-하다}} {{qualifier|predicate}}, {{t|ko|똑똑-한}} {{qualifier|attributive}}, {{t+|ko|영리-하다}} {{qualifier|predicate}}, {{t|ko|영리-한}} {{qualifier|attributive}}
* Kott: {{t|zko|anaŋaja}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|زیرەک}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|акылдуу|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ky|эстүү|sc=Cyrl}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ສະຫລາດ}}, {{t|lo|ສລາດ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|sapiens}}, {{t|la|callidus}}, {{t|la|catus}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|gudrs}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|protingas}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|умен}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|pandai}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|ihumanea}}, {{t|mi|manea}}
* Mingrelian: {{t|xmf|ჭკვერი}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|ухаантай}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|klok}}, {{t+|no|begavet}}, {{t+|no|intelligent}}, {{t|no|skarpsindig}}, {{t+|no|smart}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|باهوش|tr=bâ-huš}}, {{t+|fa|زیرک|tr=zirak}}, {{t+|fa|زرنگ|tr=zerang}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|sprytny}}, {{t|pl|zmyślny}}, {{t+|pl|bystry}}, {{t+|pl|zdolny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|esperto}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|deștept}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|у́мный}}, {{t+|ru|разу́мный}}, {{t+|ru|хи́трый}} {{qualifier|sly, cunning}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|चतुर}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tapaidh}}, {{t|gd|glic}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|паметан|sc=Cyrl}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|pametan}}
* Sinhalese: {{t|si|හපන්|sc=Sinh}}, {{t|si|දක්ෂ|sc=Sinh}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|chytrý}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|pameten}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|mudry}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|listo}}, {{t+|es|inteligente}}, {{t+|es|pillo}}, {{t+|es|astuto}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|erevu}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|klok}}, {{t+|sv|smart}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|оқил|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|tg|боақл|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|tg|ҳушманд|sc=Cyrl}}
* Tatar: {{t|tt|акыллы|sc=Cyrl}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|మేధావి}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ฉลาด}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|akıllı}}, {{t+|tr|zeki}}, {{t+|tr|afacan}}, {{q|mainly in adressing such children}}
* Turkmen: {{t+|tk|akylly}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|розу́мний}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|ہوشیار|tr=hośiyār}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|aqlli}}, {{t+|uz|oqil}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|thông minh}} ({{t|vi|聰明}})
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|sûti|m}}, {{t+|wa|sûteye|f}}, {{t+|wa|malén|m}}, {{t+|wa|malene|f}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|clyfar}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|קלוג}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|things showing inventiveness or originality}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изобретателен}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nokkela}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ingénieux}}
* German: {{t+|de|originell}}, {{t+|de|raffiniert}}, {{t+|de|abgedreht}} {{qualifier|slang}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ingegnoso}}, {{t+|it|geniale}}, {{t+|it|perspicace}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|engenhoso}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|изобрета́тельный}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|चतुर}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ingenioso}}, {{t+|es|original}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|erevu}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|zeki}}, {{t+|tr|dahi}}, {{t+|tr|zekice}}, {{t|tr|dahiyane}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|винахі́дливий}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|possessing magical abilities}}
* German: {{t|de|schamanisch}}, {{t|de|zauberkundig}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|erevu}}
* Telugu: {{t|te|మంత్రజాలం}}
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====Further reading====
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===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:OneLook}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ceelrv|Clerve}}

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==German==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|de|en|clever}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|[ˈklɛvɐ]}}
* {{hyph|de|cle|ver}}
* {{audio|de|De-clever.ogg}}

===Adjective===
{{de-adj|comp:+:-e}}

# [[#English|clever]]

====Declension====
{{de-adecl|comp:+:-e}}

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* {{R:DWDS}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
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# {{alt form|enm|clevere}}

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