finster
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vinster, from Old High German finstar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]finster (strong nominative masculine singular finsterer, comparative finsterer, superlative am finstersten)
- dark
- gloomy, lowering
- 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
- Die unfruchtbare, von Gott verfluchte Erde war eine Wüste. In der Behausung der ersten Menschen war es eng und finster.
- The infertile land, cursed by God, was a desert. In the abode of the first humans, it was narrow and gloomy.
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of finster
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist finster | sie ist finster | es ist finster | sie sind finster | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | finsterer | finstere | finsteres | finstere |
genitive | finsteren | finsterer | finsteren | finsterer | |
dative | finsterem | finsterer | finsterem | finsteren | |
accusative | finsteren | finstere | finsteres | finstere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der finstere | die finstere | das finstere | die finsteren |
genitive | des finsteren | der finsteren | des finsteren | der finsteren | |
dative | dem finsteren | der finsteren | dem finsteren | den finsteren | |
accusative | den finsteren | die finstere | das finstere | die finsteren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein finsterer | eine finstere | ein finsteres | (keine) finsteren |
genitive | eines finsteren | einer finsteren | eines finsteren | (keiner) finsteren | |
dative | einem finsteren | einer finsteren | einem finsteren | (keinen) finsteren | |
accusative | einen finsteren | eine finstere | ein finsteres | (keine) finsteren |
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Superlative forms of finster
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