Adjective: fahl
Hyphenation:
Strong Declension
(without article)
Nominative
| masculine | fahler |
| feminine | fahle |
| neuter | fahles |
| plural | fahle |
Genitive
| masculine | fahlen |
| feminine | fahler |
| neuter | fahlen |
| plural | fahler |
Dative
| masculine | fahlem |
| feminine | fahler |
| neuter | fahlem |
| plural | fahlen |
Accusative
| masculine | fahlen |
| feminine | fahle |
| neuter | fahles |
| plural | fahle |
Weak Declension
(with definite article)
Nominative
| masculine | der fahle |
| feminine | die fahle |
| neuter | das fahle |
| plural | die fahlen |
Genitive
| masculine | des fahlen |
| feminine | der fahlen |
| neuter | des fahlen |
| plural | der fahlen |
Dative
| masculine | dem fahlen |
| feminine | der fahlen |
| neuter | dem fahlen |
| plural | den fahlen |
Accusative
| masculine | den fahlen |
| feminine | die fahle |
| neuter | das fahle |
| plural | die fahlen |
Mixed Declension
(with indefinite article)
Nominative
| masculine | ein fahler |
| feminine | eine fahle |
| neuter | ein fahles |
| plural | fahlen |
Genitive
| masculine | eines fahlen |
| feminine | einer fahlen |
| neuter | eines fahlen |
| plural | fahlen |
Dative
| masculine | einem fahlen |
| feminine | einer fahlen |
| neuter | einem fahlen |
| plural | fahlen |
Accusative
| masculine | einen fahlen |
| feminine | eine fahle |
| neuter | ein fahles |
| plural | fahlen |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | fahl |
| Comparative | fahler |
| Superlative | am fahlsten |
Sample Sentences
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Schon rothes und fahles Haar muß er bleichen, um es braun oder schwarz zu beizen. (He had to bleach even red and fair hair in order to dye it brown or black.) [1836, Ludwig Friedrich Würkert, Die Stadt- und Landschule - Eine Sammlung aller Schulwissenschaften, volume 4, page 391:]
Adjectives inflected like fahl
bildungsfern,
szenig,
breitschulterig,
altsächsisch,
nutzerfreundlich,
psychoanalytisch,
unrettbar,
unverträglich,
unzerreißbar,
würzig,
würdig,
wütend,
kringelig,
sexbesessen,
sexual,
seelig,
seimig,
seidig,
seifig,
sehnig, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Middle High German val (inflected valwe), from Old High German falo, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz.
2. While the variant falb is from the Middle High German inflected stem, the form fahl is based on the uninflected stem. However, the lengthened vowel points to influence by varieties that reduce -lw- to -l- even in open syllables; these include Middle Low German vāl (declined vāle), from Old Saxon falu. See the same development in kahl. Cognate with Dutch vaal, English fallow. See: Dutch Adjectives '
vaal'.
Verbs referencing "fahl"
Spanish Adjectives
overo.
Translations