echt

See also: -echt

English

WOTD – 2 December 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛkt/

Adjective

echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)

  1. proper, real, genuine, true to type
    • 2009, January 18, “Ross Douthat”, in When Buckley Met Reagan‎:
      An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .
    • Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, 1980, p.8: I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-Germanic *aiwahaftaz.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛxt
  • IPA(key): /ɛxt/
  • audio(file)

Adjective

echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)

  1. authentic, true, genuine, real
    Synonym: waar
    Antonyms: onecht, nep, vals

Inflection

Inflection of echt
uninflected echt
inflected echte
comparative echter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial echtechterhet echtst
het echtste
indefinite m./f. sing. echteechtereechtste
n. sing. echtechterechtste
plural echteechtereechtste
definite echteechtereechtste
partitive echtsechters—

Derived terms

Adverb

echt

  1. really

Noun

echt m (uncountable)

  1. marriage, matrimony
    In de echt verbinden
    to bind in matrimony

German

Etymology

From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (“lawful”), from ē (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft- → -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛçt/
  • audio (Austria)(file)
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛçt

Adjective

echt (comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)

  1. authentic, genuine, true
    • 1994, “Es möchte echt sein”, in In Echt, performed by Die Sterne:
      Hallo Lexikon, erklär mir wie das funktioniert / Es möchte echt sein / Echt
    Die Jacke ist aus echtem Leder.
    The jacket is made of genuine leather.
  2. (chiefly colloquial) real; factual
    Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich
    Der Film ist nah an der echten Geschichte.
    The film is close to the real story.
  3. (mathematics) proper
    echte Teilmenge ― proper subset

Declension

Comparative forms of echt
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist echter sie ist echter es ist echter sie sind echter
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative echterer echtere echteres echtere
genitive echteren echterer echteren echterer
dative echterem echterer echterem echteren
accusative echteren echtere echteres echtere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der echtere die echtere das echtere die echteren
genitive des echteren der echteren des echteren der echteren
dative dem echteren der echteren dem echteren den echteren
accusative den echteren die echtere das echtere die echteren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein echterer eine echtere ein echteres (keine) echteren
genitive eines echteren einer echteren eines echteren (keiner) echteren
dative einem echteren einer echteren einem echteren (keinen) echteren
accusative einen echteren eine echtere ein echteres (keine) echteren

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Adverb

echt

  1. (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed

Synonyms

Further reading

  • echt in Duden online
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