modern
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒd(ə)n/
- (General American) enPR: mŏdʹərn, IPA(key): /ˈmɑdɚn/
- Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)n
- Hyphenation: mod‧ern
Audio (US) (file)
AdjectiveEdit
modern (comparative moderner or more modern, superlative modernest or most modern)
- Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
- Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease. Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].
- 2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
- In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
SynonymsEdit
- (pertaining to current or recent time): contemporary, current; see also Thesaurus:present
AntonymsEdit
- (pertaining to current or recent time): ancient, dated, former, historical, old, old-fashioned; see also Thesaurus:past
- (pertaining to the modern period): premodern
Derived termsEdit
- antimodern
- as modern as next week
- early modern
- late modern
- modern-day
- modern age
- modern algebra
- modern antique
- modern apprenticeship
- modern art
- modern convenience
- modern dance
- Modern English
- moderner
- modern era
- modern first
- Modern French
- modern greats
- Modern Greek
- Modern Hebrew
- modern history
- modern human
- modernise, modernize
- modernism
- modernista
- modernity
- Modern Japanese
- modern jazz
- Modern Korean
- modern language
- modernly
- modernness
- modern pentathlon
- modern physics
- Modern Portuguese
- modern primitive
- modern school
- modern sequence dancing
- Modern Standard Arabic
- modern synthesis
- modern times
- modern up
- non-modern, nonmodern
- post-modern, postmodern
- postpostmodern
- premodern
- prepostmodern
- retro-modern
- secondary modern, secondary modern school
- transmodern
- ultra-modern, ultramodern
- unmodern
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
|
NounEdit
modern (plural moderns)
- Someone who lives in modern times.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
- 1779, Edward Capell; John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:
- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
- 1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome:
- They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
- 1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, page 144:
- Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did […] we must as historians make the attempt.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 181:
- Yeats understood these ancient mysteries better than any modern.
ReferencesEdit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “modern”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- modern at OneLook Dictionary Search
- modern in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "modern" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 208.
- “modern”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “modern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern (feminine moderna, masculine plural moderns, feminine plural modernes)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “modern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “modern”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “modern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “modern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern (comparative moderner, superlative modernst)
- modern
- (historical, Protestantism) modernist
- Synonym: modernistisch
InflectionEdit
Inflection of modern | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
uninflected | modern | |||
inflected | moderne | |||
comparative | moderner | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | modern | moderner | het modernst het modernste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | moderne | modernere | modernste |
n. sing. | modern | moderner | modernste | |
plural | moderne | modernere | modernste | |
definite | moderne | modernere | modernste | |
partitive | moderns | moderners | — |
Derived termsEdit
- hypermodern
- moderniseren
- modernisme, modernist, moderniste
- moderniteit
- postmodern, postmodernisme, postmodernist, postmoderniste
DescendantsEdit
GermanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Moder (“moldiness”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
modern (weak, third-person singular present modert, past tense moderte, past participle gemodert, auxiliary haben)
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | modern | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present participle | modernd | ||||
past participle | gemodert | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich modre ich modere ich moder |
wir modern | i | ich modere ich modre |
wir modern |
du moderst | ihr modert | du moderest du modrest |
ihr moderet ihr modret | ||
er modert | sie modern | er modere er modre |
sie modern | ||
preterite | ich moderte | wir moderten | ii | ich moderte1 | wir moderten1 |
du modertest | ihr modertet | du modertest1 | ihr modertet1 | ||
er moderte | sie moderten | er moderte1 | sie moderten1 | ||
imperative | modre (du) moder (du) modere (du) |
modert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Etymology 2Edit
From French moderne, from Latin modernus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern (strong nominative masculine singular moderner, comparative moderner, superlative am modernsten)
DeclensionEdit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist modern | sie ist modern | es ist modern | sie sind modern | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | moderner | moderne | modernes | moderne |
genitive | modernen | moderner | modernen | moderner | |
dative | modernem | moderner | modernem | modernen | |
accusative | modernen | moderne | modernes | moderne | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der moderne | die moderne | das moderne | die modernen |
genitive | des modernen | der modernen | des modernen | der modernen | |
dative | dem modernen | der modernen | dem modernen | den modernen | |
accusative | den modernen | die moderne | das moderne | die modernen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein moderner | eine moderne | ein modernes | (keine) modernen |
genitive | eines modernen | einer modernen | eines modernen | (keiner) modernen | |
dative | einem modernen | einer modernen | einem modernen | (keinen) modernen | |
accusative | einen modernen | eine moderne | ein modernes | (keine) modernen |
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “modern (Verb)” in Duden online
- “modern (Adjektiv)” in Duden online
- “modern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English modern and German modern, from French moderne, from Medieval Latin modernus.[1]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern (comparative modernebb, superlative legmodernebb)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | modern | modernek |
accusative | modernet | moderneket |
dative | modernnek | moderneknek |
instrumental | modernnel | modernekkel |
causal-final | modernért | modernekért |
translative | modernné | modernekké |
terminative | modernig | modernekig |
essive-formal | modernként | modernekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | modernben | modernekben |
superessive | modernen | moderneken |
adessive | modernnél | moderneknél |
illative | modernbe | modernekbe |
sublative | modernre | modernekre |
allative | modernhez | modernekhez |
elative | modernből | modernekből |
delative | modernről | modernekről |
ablative | moderntől | modernektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
moderné | moderneké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
modernéi | modernekéi |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- modern in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
HunsrikEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern
DeclensionEdit
Declension of modern | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
Weak inflection | nominative | modern | modern | modern | moderne |
accusative | moderne | modern | modern | moderne | |
dative | moderne | moderne | moderne | moderne | |
Strong inflection | nominative | moderner | moderne | modernes | moderne |
accusative | moderne | moderne | modernes | moderne | |
dative | modernem | moderner | modernem | moderne |
Further readingEdit
IndonesianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch modern, from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus, from modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". Doublet of mode, model, modul, and modus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modèrn
NounEdit
modèrn (first-person possessive modernku, second-person possessive modernmu, third-person possessive modernnya)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “modern” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern m or n (feminine singular modernă, masculine plural moderni, feminine and neuter plural moderne)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | modern | modernă | moderni | moderne | ||
definite | modernul | moderna | modernii | modernele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | modern | moderne | moderni | moderne | ||
definite | modernului | modernei | modernilor | modernelor |
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From French moderne, from Late Latin modernus.
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
modern (comparative modernare, superlative modernast)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of modern | |||
---|---|---|---|
Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | modern | modernare | modernast |
Neuter singular | modernt | modernare | modernast |
Plural | moderna | modernare | modernast |
Masculine plural3 | moderne | modernare | modernast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | moderne | modernare | modernaste |
All | moderna | modernare | modernaste |
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 |
AntonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of moder.
NounEdit
modern
AnagramsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
modern
DeclensionEdit
present tense | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
positive, declarative |
positive, interrogative |
negative, declarative |
negative, interrogative | |
ben (I am) | modernim | modern miyim? | modern değilim | modern değil miyim? |
sen (you are) | modernsin | modern misin? | modern değilsin | modern değil misin? |
o (he/she/it is) | modern / moderndir | modern mi? | modern değil | modern değil mi? |
biz (we are) | moderniz | modern miyiz? | modern değiliz | modern değil miyiz? |
siz (you are) | modernsiniz | modern misiniz? | modern değilsiniz | modern değil misiniz? |
onlar (they are) | modern(ler) | modern(ler) mi? | modern değil(ler) | modern değiller mi? |
past tense | ||||
positive, declarative |
positive, interrogative |
negative, declarative |
negative, interrogative | |
ben (I was) | moderndim | modern miydim? | modern değildim | modern değil miydim? |
sen (you were) | moderndin | modern miydin? | modern değildin | modern değil miydin? |
o (he/she/it was) | moderndi | modern miydi? | modern değildi | modern değil miydi? |
biz (we were) | moderndik | modern miydik? | modern değildik | modern değil miydik? |
siz (you were) | moderndiniz | modern miydiniz? | modern değildiniz | modern değil miydiniz? |
onlar (they were) | moderndiler | modern miydiler? | modern değildi(ler) / değillerdi | modern değil miydiler? |
indirect past | ||||
positive, declarative |
positive, interrogative |
negative, declarative |
negative, interrogative | |
ben (I was) | modernmişim | modern miymişim? | modern değilmişim | modern değil miymişim? |
sen (you were) | modernmişsin | modern miymişsin? | modern değilmişsin | modern değil miymişsin? |
o (he/she/it was) | modernmiş | modern miymiş? | modern değilmiş | modern değil miymiş? |
biz (we were) | modernmişiz | modern miymişiz? | modern değilmişiz | modern değil miymişiz? |
siz (you were) | modernmişsiniz | modern miymişsiniz? | modern değilmişsiniz | modern değil miymişsiniz? |
onlar (they were) | modernmişler | modern miymişler? | modern değilmiş(ler) / değillermiş | modern değil miymişler? |
conditional | ||||
positive, declarative |
positive, interrogative |
negative, declarative |
negative, interrogative | |
ben (if I) | modernsem | modern miysem? | modern değilsem | modern değil miysem? |
sen (if you) | modernsen | modern miysen? | modern değilsen | modern değil miysen? |
o (if he/she/it) | modernse | modern miyse? | modern değilse | modern değil miyse? |
biz (if we) | modernsek | modern miysek? | modern değilsek | modern değil miysek? |
siz (if you) | modernseniz | modern miyseniz? | modern değilseniz | modern değil miyseniz? |
onlar (if they) | modernseler | modern miyseler? | modern değilseler / değillerse | modern değil miyseler? |