Adjective: bang
Hyphenation:
Strong Declension
(without article)
Nominative
| masculine | banger |
| feminine | bange |
| neuter | banges |
| plural | bange |
Genitive
| masculine | bangen |
| feminine | banger |
| neuter | bangen |
| plural | banger |
Dative
| masculine | bangem |
| feminine | banger |
| neuter | bangem |
| plural | bangen |
Accusative
| masculine | bangen |
| feminine | bange |
| neuter | banges |
| plural | bange |
Weak Declension
(with definite article)
Nominative
| masculine | der bange |
| feminine | die bange |
| neuter | das bange |
| plural | die bangen |
Genitive
| masculine | des bangen |
| feminine | der bangen |
| neuter | des bangen |
| plural | der bangen |
Dative
| masculine | dem bangen |
| feminine | der bangen |
| neuter | dem bangen |
| plural | den bangen |
Accusative
| masculine | den bangen |
| feminine | die bange |
| neuter | das bange |
| plural | die bangen |
Mixed Declension
(with indefinite article)
Nominative
| masculine | ein banger |
| feminine | eine bange |
| neuter | ein banges |
| plural | bangen |
Genitive
| masculine | eines bangen |
| feminine | einer bangen |
| neuter | eines bangen |
| plural | bangen |
Dative
| masculine | einem bangen |
| feminine | einer bangen |
| neuter | einem bangen |
| plural | bangen |
Accusative
| masculine | einen bangen |
| feminine | eine bange |
| neuter | ein banges |
| plural | bangen |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | bang |
| Comparative | banger; bänger |
| Superlative | am bangsten; am bängsten |
Sample Sentences
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Und ist man tot, so muß man lang / Im Grabe liegen; ich bin bang, / Ja, ich bin bang, das Auferstehen / Wird nicht so schnell von Statten gehen. (And when one is dead, one must lie long in the grave; I'm afraid / Yes, I'm afraid, the resurrection / Won't happen so quickly.) [1851, Heinrich Heine, “Lazarus”, in Romanzero, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:]
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Trübe Tage wechselten mit bangen Nächten. Das Leben war schwer. (Dismal days turned into fearful nights. Life was difficult.) [1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:]
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[…]wenn sie, was mich stets in eine bange Stimmung versetzte, nicht in Paris war, machte ich mich regelmäßig auf, die Randbezirke der Stadt zu erkunden […] (when she, which always placed me into a state of dread, wasn’t in Paris, I regularly set off to reconnoitre the outlying districts of the city […]) [2001, Winfried Georg Sebald, Austerlitz, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, →ISBN, page 376:]
Adjectives inflected like bang
bang,
Etymology
Originally an adverb, cf. mir ist bange. From Middle High German bange, an enlargement (with the prefix be-) of ange, Old High German ango (“narrowly, anxiously”), an adverb of engi (“narrow”), from Proto-Germanic *anguz.
Verbs referencing "bang"
Dutch Adjectives
bang.
Translations