strack
German
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editAdjective
editstrack (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
editPositive 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
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “strack” in Duden online
Scots
editEtymology
editUncertain. Perhaps a variant of strick, or from Old English stræc (“strict”).
Adjective
editstrack (comparative mair strack, superlative maist strack)
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