Kongolese

English

Adjective

Kongolese (comparative more Kongolese, superlative most Kongolese)

1. Alternative spelling of Congolese
   • 2005, Mark Michael Smith, Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 114:

     Even Hilton, who stresses the highly syncretic nature of Kongolese Catholicism, sees Mary as particularly important to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongolese Christianity: […]

Noun

Kongolese (plural Kongolese)

1. Alternative spelling of Congolese
   • 1994, John Conteh-Morgan, Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 130:

     They can abandon their project now that they know the Kongolese are civilised in a profound, philosophical sense of the word.

Afrikaans

Adjective

Kongolese

1. attributive form of Kongolees

Noun

Kongolese

1. plural of Kongolees

German

Etymology

From Kongo +‎ -ese with an additional l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔŋɡoˈleːzə/

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Noun

Kongolese m (weak, genitive Kongolesen, plural Kongolesen, feminine Kongolesin)

1. Congolese (person from Republic of Congo)

Declension

Declension of Kongolese [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kongolese	die	Kongolesen
genitive	eines	des	Kongolesen	der	Kongolesen
dative	einem	dem	Kongolesen	den	Kongolesen
accusative	einen	den	Kongolesen	die	Kongolesen

Further reading

• “Kongolese” in Duden online
• “Kongolese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache