Noun: Platt
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Das Platt, das hier gesprochen wird, verstehe ich schlecht. (I have trouble understanding the dialect spoken around here.)
Nouns inflected like Platt
A-Dur,
Kimchi,
Gaudi,
Kölsch,
Hightech,
H-dur,
Dschihad,
Platt,
Corned Beef,
As-Dur,
Unbill,
Früh,
Syph,
Katzenstreu,
Biltong,
Hagelslag,
Genüge,
Nutella,
H-Dur,
Furore, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Ultimately the same as platt (“flat”), although the motivation seems not to be quite clear; possibly the geographically low areas of Germany as in Niederdeutsch (“Low German”), or else “not elevated, ordinary, simple” speech. Cognate to Dutch plat n (“dialect”), Central Franconian Platt (“dialect”), Low German Platt n (“Low German”) See: Dutch Nouns '
plat'.
Verbs referencing "Platt"
Dutch Nouns
plat.
Translations