krum
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective edit
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- krumme (verb)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective edit
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- krumme (verb)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
krum
- imperative of krumme
References edit
- “krum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German krum.
Adjective edit
krum (neuter singular krumt, definite singular and plural krumme)
Related terms edit
- krumme (verb)
References edit
- “krum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German krum, from Old Saxon krumb, from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.
Adjective edit
krum (comparative krummare, superlative krummast)
- (of a person) having a hunched back
- bent out of shape, crooked (of for example a tree or a body part)
- (archaic) bent, curved (in general)
Usage notes edit
Often a bit old-fashioned with connotations of being from hard work or old age in (sense 1).
Declension edit
| Inflection of krum | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | krum | krummare | krummast |
| Neuter singular | krumt | krummare | krummast |
| Plural | krumma | krummare | krummast |
| Masculine plural3 | krumme | krummare | krummast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | krumme | krummare | krummaste |
| All | krumma | krummare | krummaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms edit
- krumelur (“figure made of squiggly lines”)
- krumpassare (“calipers”)
References edit
- krum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- krum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- krum in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Tok Pisin edit
Adjective edit
krum