Adjective: flau
Hyphenation:
Strong Declension
(without article)
Nominative
| masculine | flauer |
| feminine | flaue |
| neuter | flaues |
| plural | flaue |
Genitive
| masculine | flauen |
| feminine | flauer |
| neuter | flauen |
| plural | flauer |
Dative
| masculine | flauem |
| feminine | flauer |
| neuter | flauem |
| plural | flauen |
Accusative
| masculine | flauen |
| feminine | flaue |
| neuter | flaues |
| plural | flaue |
Weak Declension
(with definite article)
Nominative
| masculine | der flaue |
| feminine | die flaue |
| neuter | das flaue |
| plural | die flauen |
Genitive
| masculine | des flauen |
| feminine | der flauen |
| neuter | des flauen |
| plural | der flauen |
Dative
| masculine | dem flauen |
| feminine | der flauen |
| neuter | dem flauen |
| plural | den flauen |
Accusative
| masculine | den flauen |
| feminine | die flaue |
| neuter | das flaue |
| plural | die flauen |
Mixed Declension
(with indefinite article)
Nominative
| masculine | ein flauer |
| feminine | eine flaue |
| neuter | ein flaues |
| plural | flauen |
Genitive
| masculine | eines flauen |
| feminine | einer flauen |
| neuter | eines flauen |
| plural | flauen |
Dative
| masculine | einem flauen |
| feminine | einer flauen |
| neuter | einem flauen |
| plural | flauen |
Accusative
| masculine | einen flauen |
| feminine | eine flaue |
| neuter | ein flaues |
| plural | flauen |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | flau |
| Comparative | flauer |
| Superlative | am flauesten; am flausten |
Sample Sentences
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Mir wurde flau. (I got dizzy.)
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Mir ist flau im Magen. (I feel nauseous.)
Adjectives inflected like flau
schlau,
originalgetreu,
papsttreu,
fangfrisch,
regimetreu,
kontaktscheu,
schmerzfrei,
unwirsch,
himmelblau,
ungenau,
medienscheu,
behämmert,
kopfscheu,
nagelneu,
unkeusch,
sinnfrei,
taufrisch,
einwandfrei,
splitterfrei,
kamerascheu, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Via Middle Low German flau, from Middle Dutch vlau (compare modern Dutch flauw). The Dutch word was borrowed from Old French flou (“tired, weary”), which is probably of Germanic origin and, if so, then cognate with German lau. See: Dutch Adjectives '
flauw'.
Verbs referencing "flau"
Italian Adjectives
fioco.
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