strack
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German strac (“straight”), from Old High German *strac (attested in framstrac), from Proto-Germanic *strakkaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with Dutch strak. More at stretch.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
strack (strong nominative masculine singular stracker, comparative stracker, superlative am stracksten)
Usage notes edit
- Now chiefly used in the figurative sense “drunk” or in the adverbial form stracks (“directly”). The literal sense is quite rare but still widely understood. It is commonest referring to people’s posture, chiefly with the verbs liegen, sitzen, stehen, sometimes also in the combination strack und steif.
Declension edit
Positive forms of strack
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist strack | sie ist strack | es ist strack | sie sind strack | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | stracker | stracke | strackes | stracke |
genitive | stracken | stracker | stracken | stracker | |
dative | strackem | stracker | strackem | stracken | |
accusative | stracken | stracke | strackes | stracke | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der stracke | die stracke | das stracke | die stracken |
genitive | des stracken | der stracken | des stracken | der stracken | |
dative | dem stracken | der stracken | dem stracken | den stracken | |
accusative | den stracken | die stracke | das stracke | die stracken | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein stracker | eine stracke | ein strackes | (keine) stracken |
genitive | eines stracken | einer stracken | eines stracken | (keiner) stracken | |
dative | einem stracken | einer stracken | einem stracken | (keinen) stracken | |
accusative | einen stracken | eine stracke | ein strackes | (keine) stracken |
Comparative forms of strack
Superlative forms of strack
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “strack” in Duden online
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of strick, or from Old English stræc (“strict”).
Adjective edit
strack (comparative mair strack, superlative maist strack)