mager

See also: Mager, mäger, måger, and -mager

Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːˀər
  • Rhymes: -aːər

Etymology 1

From Old Danish maghær, from Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.

Adjective

mager

  1. lean
  2. thin, spare, skinny, scrawny
  3. poor, meagre
Inflection
Inflection of mager
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular mager — —2
Neuter singular magert — —2
Plural magre — —2
Definite attributive1 magre — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

From Latin magus.

Noun

mager c (singular definite mageren, plural indefinite magere)

  1. mage
Inflection

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Noun

mager c

  1. plural indefinite of mage

Verb

mager

  1. present tense of mage

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros. Cognate with German, Danish, and Swedish mager, etc., and with Latin macer, Italian magro and English meager through Indo-European.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mager (comparative magerder, superlative magerst)

  1. lean, (nearly) without fat
  2. meager, skinny, thin
  3. poor, pitiful, skim
    Zo'n mager loon betekent magere melk en mager vertier!
    Such meager wages mean skimmed milk and poor entertainment!
  4. infertile (said of soil); weak

Inflection

Inflection of mager
uninflected mager
inflected magere
comparative magerder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mager magerder het magerst
het magerste
indefinite m./f. sing. magere magerdere magerste
n. sing. mager magerder magerste
plural magere magerdere magerste
definite magere magerdere magerste
partitive magers magerders —

Antonyms

Derived terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Old High German magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros. Cognate with Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish mager, etc., and with English meagre through Indo-European.

Adjective

mager

  1. lean, without fat
  2. meager, skinny

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.

Adjective

mager (neuter singular magert, definite singular and plural magre)

  1. meager (US) or meagre (UK), lean
    magert kjøtt - lean meat
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

mager m

  1. indefinite plural of mage

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.

Adjective

mager (neuter singular magert, definite singular and plural magre)

  1. meagre (UK) or meager (US), lean

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish magher, from Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mager

  1. lean, without fat
  2. meager, skinny

Declension

Inflection of mager
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular mager magrare magrast
Neuter singular magert magrare magrast
Plural magra magrare magrast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 magre magrare magraste
All magra magrare magraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

See also

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