brandneu
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ca. 1930, from Brand (“fire, burning”) + neu (“neu”), after English brand new (originally “fresh from the fire”, as of a piece of metal).
It is possible that German Brand goes back to phono-semantic matching of English brand rather than true loan translation, seeing that the archaic sense “fire” is not widely known among German learners of English. This would mean that the original sense of the English construct was unconsciously and, in a sense, accidentally reproduced in German.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]brandneu (strong nominative masculine singular brandneuer, comparative (very rare) brandneuer, superlative am brandneuesten or am brandneusten)
- (colloquial) brand new
- Synonym: nagelneu
- Hast du schon mein brandneues Auto gesehen?
- Have you seen my brand new car yet?
- Der Computer ist brandneu.
- The computer is brand new.
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of brandneu
Comparative forms of brandneu
1Very rare.
Superlative forms of brandneu
Further reading
[edit]- “brandneu” in Duden online
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