imposant
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From imposar.
Adjective
[edit]imposant m or f (masculine and feminine plural imposants)
- impressive, imposing, stately
- Synonym: imponent
Verb
[edit]imposant
Further reading
[edit]- “imposant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “imposant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “imposant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imposant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French imposant (“imposing”), from imposer (“impose”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]imposant
- imposing
- (adverbial) imposingly
Inflection
[edit]positive | comparative | superlative | |
---|---|---|---|
indefinite common singular | imposant | — | —2 |
indefinite neuter singular | imposant | — | —2 |
plural | imposante | — | —2 |
definite attributive1 | imposante | — | — |
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.
Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From imposer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]imposant (feminine imposante, masculine plural imposants, feminine plural imposantes)
Descendants
[edit]Participle
[edit]imposant
Further reading
[edit]- “imposant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French imposant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]imposant (strong nominative masculine singular imposanter, comparative imposanter, superlative am imposantesten)
- impressive, imposing
- Synonyms: beeindruckend, eindrucksvoll, majestätisch, monumental
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of imposant
Comparative forms of imposant
Superlative forms of imposant
Further reading
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- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan epicene adjectives
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan gerunds
- Danish terms borrowed from French
- Danish terms derived from French
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish adjectives
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
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- French non-lemma forms
- French present participles
- German terms borrowed from French
- German terms derived from French
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- Rhymes:German/ant
- Rhymes:German/ant/3 syllables
- German lemmas
- German adjectives