"slim" meaning in Dutch

See slim in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /slɪm/ Audio: Nl-slim.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪm Etymology: From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|slim}} Middle Dutch slim, {{m|dum|slem}} slem, {{m|dum|slimp}} slimp, {{m|dum|slemp}} slemp, {{inh|nl|odt|*slimb}} Old Dutch *slimb, {{inh|nl|gem-pro|*slimbaz|t=oblique, crooked}} Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), {{cog|de|schlimm||bad}} German schlimm (“bad”), {{cog|en|slim}} English slim Head templates: {{nl-adj|slimmer}} slim (comparative slimmer, superlative slimst) Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-adj|slimme}} Forms: slimmer [comparative], slimst [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], slim [adverbial, positive, predicative], slimmer [adverbial, comparative, predicative], het slimst [adverbial, predicative, superlative], het slimste [adverbial, predicative, superlative], slimme [feminine, indefinite, masculine, positive, singular], slimmere [comparative, feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular], slimste [feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular, superlative], slim [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], slimmer [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], slimste [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], slimme [indefinite, plural, positive], slimmere [comparative, indefinite, plural], slimste [indefinite, plural, superlative], slimme [definite, positive], slimmere [comparative, definite], slimste [definite, superlative], slims [partitive, positive], slimmers [comparative, partitive], - [partitive, superlative]
  1. intelligent, bright
    Sense id: en-slim-nl-adj-41S28EUj
  2. clever, smart
    Sense id: en-slim-nl-adj-9x-bUVNg
  3. (now dialectal, Eastern Dutch) wrong, incorrect, bad Tags: Dutch, Eastern, dialectal
    Sense id: en-slim-nl-adj-eN2A9ijR Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 5 10 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: intelligent, scherpzinnig, schrander, sluw, gewiekst, listig Derived forms: slimheid, slimmerd, slimmerik, slimmigheid, slimpie

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "gewiekst"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "word": "slimmerd"
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        "superlative"
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        "positive"
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        "comparative",
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    {
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      "glosses": [
        "wrong, incorrect, bad"
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          "incorrect"
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    {
      "audio": "Nl-slim.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/Nl-slim.ogg/Nl-slim.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Nl-slim.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "intelligent"
    },
    {
      "word": "scherpzinnig"
    },
    {
      "word": "schrander"
    },
    {
      "word": "sluw"
    },
    {
      "word": "gewiekst"
    },
    {
      "word": "listig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slim"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.