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Relatit: lång, lāng, láng, lǎng, làng, and Lang

English

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Lang (plural Langs)

  1. Abbreviation o language

Adjective

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Pairt or aw o this entry haes been importit frae the 1913 edeetion o Webster’s Dictionar, which is nou free o copyricht an hence in the public domain. The importit defineetions mey be signeeficantly oot o date, an ony mair recent senses mey be completely missin.

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  1. Template:Obsolete long

Derived terms

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Auld Norse

langr

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Pronunciation

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  • /lanɡ/

Adjective

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Lang (neuter langt, definite and plural lange, comparative længere, superlative længst)

  1. long (having great distance)

Etymology

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From Old Dutch *lang, from Template:Proto.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Lang (comparative Langer, superlative Langst)

  1. long
    Het was een lange dag. — It's been a long day.
  2. tall
    Een lange man. — A tall man.
  3. lengthy (time)
    Het duurt lang. — It takes a long time.

Declension

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Antonyms

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Adverb

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Lang

  1. a long time
    Wie heeft het langst gespeeld? — "Who played longest?
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Derived terms

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German

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Lang (??? please provide the comparative/superlative!)

  1. long
  2. tall, high, lofty
  3. lengthy (time)

Declension

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Antonyms

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Adverb

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Lang

  1. long
  2. during
  3. for
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 34/2010, page 87:
      Die Pharmakonzerne müssen ihre Preise nun drei Jahre lang auf dem Niveau vom Sommer 2009 einfrieren.
      The pharmaceutical companies now have to freeze their prices for three years at the level of summer 2009.

Derived terms

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French
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Lang

  1. language

Synonyms

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Icelandic

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  1. accusative indefinite singular o langur
  2. dative indefinite singular o langur

Mandarin

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Pinyin syllable

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lang

  1. Nonstaundart spellin o lāng.
  2. Nonstaundart spellin o láng.
  3. Nonstaundart spellin o lǎng.
  4. Nonstaundart spellin o làng.

Usage notes

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.



Norwegian

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Lang

  1. long

Inflection

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Old English

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Etymology

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Template:Proto, from Template:Proto. Cognate with Old Saxon
lang
(Dutch
lang
), Old High German
lang
(German
lang
), Old Norse
langr
(Swedish
lång
, Danish
lang
, Norwegian
lang
, Icelandic
langur
).

Pronunciation

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  • /lɑŋɡ/

Adjective

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Lang (comparative lengra, superlative lengest)

  1. long

Declension

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Weak Strang
singular plural singular plural
m n f m n f m n f
nominative langa lange lange langan nom. lang lange lang langa, -e
accusative langan lange langan acc. langne lang lange lange lang langa, -e
genitive langan langra, langena gen. langes langes langre langra
dative langan langum dat. langum langum langre langum
instrumental lange


Descendants

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Old High German

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Etymology

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Template:Proto, whence also Old English
lang
, Old Norse
langr
.

Adjective

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Lang

  1. long

Adjective

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Lang (comparative langer, superlative langest)

  1. long

Adverb

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Lang (comparative langer, superlative langest)

  1. long

Derived terms

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Tagalog

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Adverb

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Lang

  1. only

Vietnamese

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Adjective

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lang

  1. roan, piebald