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stolt
stolt
Dutch
Verb
stolt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of stollen
- (archaic) plural imperative of stollen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz
Adjective
stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltere, indefinite superlative stoltest, definite superlative stolteste)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
stolt
- past participle of stole
References
- “stolt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz
Adjective
stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltare, indefinite superlative stoltast, definite superlative stoltaste)
References
- “stolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stolter (“majestic, beautiful, fine, proud”), Danish stolt, Middle Low German stolt, Middle High German and present German stolz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stolt
- proud
- jag är stolt över dig
- I'm proud of you
- stolt som en tupp
- proud as a cock
- Sedan kommer matadoren, den stoltaste av dem alla
- Then comes the matador, the proudest of them all
- jag är stolt över dig
Declension
Inflection of stolt | |||
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Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | stolt | stoltare | stoltast |
Neuter singular | stolt | stoltare | stoltast |
Plural | stolta | stoltare | stoltast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | stolte | stoltare | stoltaste |
All | stolta | stoltare | stoltaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. |
Related terms
Adverb
stolt
References
- stolt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)