glat

See also: glät and GLAT

Danish

Adjective

glat (neuter glat, plural and definite singular attributive glatte)

slippery
Pas på, her er glat.
smooth
Hans hage var glat.
(calculus) differentiable everywhere

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German (*)glad, northern variant of glat, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz. The modern final -t is irregularly generalised from the uninflected stem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡlaːt/
- Rhymes: -aːt

Adjective

glat (masculine glaten, neuter glat, comparative méi glat, superlative am glaatsten)

smooth
Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.
The dog had a beautiful, smooth coat.
slippery (e.g. because of ice or water)
Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.
He slipped on the slippery floor.

Declension

declension of glat

number and gender		singular			plural
number and gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass glat	si ass glat	et ass glat	si si(nn) glat
nominative / accusative	attributive and/or after determiner	glaten	glat	glat	glat
nominative / accusative	independent without determiner	glaten	glat	glates	glater
dative	after any declined word	glaten	glater	glaten	glaten
dative	as first declined word	glatem	glater	glatem	glaten

Adverb

glat

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glat

bright

Descendants

Middle High German: glat
- German: glatt
  - → Danish: glat
  - → Swedish: glatt
  - → Norwegian: glatt
  - → Esperanto: glata
    - Ido: glata
- Luxembourgish: glat
- Vilamovian: głōt
- Yiddish: גלאַט (glat)
  - → English: glatt