Adjective: plump
Hyphenation:
Strong Declension
(without article)
Nominative
| masculine | plumper |
| feminine | plumpe |
| neuter | plumpes |
| plural | plumpe |
Genitive
| masculine | plumpen |
| feminine | plumper |
| neuter | plumpen |
| plural | plumper |
Dative
| masculine | plumpem |
| feminine | plumper |
| neuter | plumpem |
| plural | plumpen |
Accusative
| masculine | plumpen |
| feminine | plumpe |
| neuter | plumpes |
| plural | plumpe |
Weak Declension
(with definite article)
Nominative
| masculine | der plumpe |
| feminine | die plumpe |
| neuter | das plumpe |
| plural | die plumpen |
Genitive
| masculine | des plumpen |
| feminine | der plumpen |
| neuter | des plumpen |
| plural | der plumpen |
Dative
| masculine | dem plumpen |
| feminine | der plumpen |
| neuter | dem plumpen |
| plural | den plumpen |
Accusative
| masculine | den plumpen |
| feminine | die plumpe |
| neuter | das plumpe |
| plural | die plumpen |
Mixed Declension
(with indefinite article)
Nominative
| masculine | ein plumper |
| feminine | eine plumpe |
| neuter | ein plumpes |
| plural | plumpen |
Genitive
| masculine | eines plumpen |
| feminine | einer plumpen |
| neuter | eines plumpen |
| plural | plumpen |
Dative
| masculine | einem plumpen |
| feminine | einer plumpen |
| neuter | einem plumpen |
| plural | plumpen |
Accusative
| masculine | einen plumpen |
| feminine | eine plumpe |
| neuter | ein plumpes |
| plural | plumpen |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | plump |
| Comparative | plumper |
| Superlative | am plumpsten; am plumpesten |
Sample Sentences
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Diese sogenannte Skulptur ist nur ein plumper, rostiger Metallklotz. (This so-called sculpture is but a squat, rusty lump of metal.)
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Er kam mit seinem plumpen, stampfenden Gang auf uns zugeschwankt. (He came toddling towards us with his graceless, stomping gait.)
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Die Rede des Kandidaten war gespickt mit plumpen Anbiederungsversuchen. (The candidate’s speech was full of clumsy attempts to ingratiate himself.)
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Er näherte sich der jungen Frau mit plumpen Sprüchen. (He approached the young woman with crude remarks.)
Adjectives inflected like plump
schlank,
bewandert,
übernächtigt,
tatenfroh,
farbenfroh,
lebensfroh,
tough,
plump,
jäh,
weh,
roh,
zäh,
gefeiert,
lütt,
froh,
tumb,
welk,
wirr,
rauh,
stumpf, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Middle Low German plump, itself onomatopoeic for a dull fall (as of a stone into water, or a sack on the ground). Cognate with Dutch and Middle Dutch plomp (13th c.), whence also English plump.
2. Alemannic German has shifted forms in Alsatian pflumpfig, Swiss pflumpfet, but these were probably formed analogically as the word moved up the Rhine (and thus do not prove West Germanic inheritance). See: English Adjectives '
plump'.
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