Adjective: kort
Hyphenation:
Definite Forms
Singular Masculine
korte
All Other Forms
korta
Comparison Forms
Comparative
| Indefinite | kortare |
| Definite | kortare |
Superlative
| Indefinite | kortast |
| Definite | kortaste |
Perifrastic Comparison Forms
Sample Sentences
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Thomas! Thomas! [...]viskade nu Lotten, ty det var den korte som segrat, och hon hade igenkänt honom. (Thomas! Thomas! Lotten now whispered, since it was the short one that had won, and she had recognized him.) [1901, Zacharias Topelius, Noveller:]
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Kortaste avståndet mellan två punkter är den krokiga linjen, ju krokigare, desto kortare. (The shortest distance between two points is the crooked line, the more crooked, the shorter.) [1931, Hjalmar Bergman, Clownen Jac:]
Adjectives inflected like kort
schyst,
skärpt,
vildsint,
intolerant,
charmant,
bastant,
hårdkokt,
hårdhänt,
dansant,
ljushyllt,
släpphänt,
distinkt,
slapphänt,
delikat,
försynt,
introvert,
schysst,
kompetent,
proppmätt,
tolerant, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus. Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort. See: Latin Adjectives '
curtus', German Adjectives '
kurz', Dutch Adjectives '
kort'.
Verbs referencing "kort"
German Adjectives
kurz.
Translations