stolt

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Verb

stolt

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of stollen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of stollen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz

Adjective

stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltere, indefinite superlative stoltest, definite superlative stolteste)

  1. proud
Derived terms

Verb

stolt

  1. past participle of stole

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz

Adjective

stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltare, indefinite superlative stoltast, definite superlative stoltaste)

  1. proud

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stolter (“majestic, beautiful, fine, proud”), Danish stolt, Middle Low German stolt, Middle High German and present German stolz.

Pronunciation
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Adjective

stolt

  1. proud
    jag är stolt över dig
    I'm proud of you
    stolt som en tupp
    proud as a cock
    Sedan kommer matadoren, den stoltaste av dem alla
    Then comes the matador, the proudest of them all

Declension
Inflection of stolt
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular stolt stoltare stoltast
Neuter singular stolt stoltare stoltast
Plural stolta stoltare stoltast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 stolte stoltare stoltaste
All stolta stoltare stoltaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Adverb

stolt

  1. proudly

References
  • stolt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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