Fant

See also: fant

English

Proper noun

Fant

A surname.

German

Etymology

From Italian fante (“lad, chum”).

Noun

Fant m (genitive Fante or Fantes, plural Fante)

an inexperienced person acting as experienced
a dandy, an irrelevant person of pompous and vain apparence
Synonym: Pinkel

Declension

Declension of Fant

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Fant	die	Fante
genitive	eines	des	Fantes, Fants	der	Fante
dative	einem	dem	Fant, Fante¹	den	Fanten
accusative	einen	den	Fant	die	Fante

¹Now uncommon, see notes

References

Fant in Duden online
Wolfgang Pfeifer: Etymologisches Wörterbuch

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