kort
Afrikaans
    
    Etymology
    
From Dutch kort, from Middle Dutch cort, from Old Dutch kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔrt/
- Audio - (file) 
Derived terms
    
Danish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔrt/, [ˈkʰɒːd̥]
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t
Etymology 1
    
From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort.
Inflection
    
| Inflection of kort | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Indefinte common singular | kort | kortere | kortest2 | 
| Indefinite neuter singular | kort | kortere | kortest2 | 
| Plural | korte | kortere | kortest2 | 
| Definite attributive1 | korte | kortere | korteste | 
| 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. | |||
References
    
- “kort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
    
Borrowed from Low German kort, German Karte, from French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτη (khártē).
Declension
    
See also
    
| Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text) | ||||||
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|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
| es | toer | treer | firer | femmer | sekser | syver | 
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
| otter | nier | tier | knægt, bonde | dame, dronning | konge | joker | 
References
    
- “kort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔrt/
- audio - (file) 
- Hyphenation: kort
- Rhymes: -ɔrt
Etymology 1
    
Inherited from Middle Dutch cort, from Old Dutch kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt.
Inflection
    
| Inflection of kort | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | kort | |||
| inflected | korte | |||
| comparative | korter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | kort | korter | het kortst het kortste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | korte | kortere | kortste | 
| n. sing. | kort | korter | kortste | |
| plural | korte | kortere | kortste | |
| definite | korte | kortere | kortste | |
| partitive | korts | korters | — | |
Derived terms
    
Etymology 2
    
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Faroese
    
    Etymology
    
From Old Norse kort, from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kʰɔɻ̊ʈ/
German
    
    Pronunciation
    
- Audio - (file) 
Hungarian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈkort]
- Hyphenation: kort
Icelandic
    
    Etymology
    
From the Old Norse word kort (“a map”), from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta (“papyrus, paper”). Related to Danish kort (“a map”) and German Karte (“a card; a map”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kʰɔr̥t/
- Rhymes: -ɔr̥t
Noun
    
kort n (genitive singular korts, nominative plural kort)
- map
- Synonym: landakort
 
- postcard, card
- Synonyms: póstkort, bréfspjald
 
- debit card
- Synonym: debetkort
 
- credit card
- Synonyms: kreditkort, greiðslukort
 
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
- út úr kortinu (“beyond the pale, out of the question”)
Norwegian Bokmål
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔʈ/
- Rhymes: -ɔʈ
Etymology 1
    
From Latin curtus, via Middle Low German kort and Old Norse kortr.
Adjective
    
kort (neuter singular kort, definite singular and plural korte, comparative kortere, indefinite plural kortest, definite plural korteste)
Etymology 2
    
Borrowed from German Low German kort, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun
    
kort n (definite singular kortet, indefinite plural kort, definite plural korta or kortene)
- a card
Derived terms
    
References
    
- “kort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    Etymology 1
    
From Latin curtus, via Middle Low German kort and Old Norse kortr.
Adjective
    
kort (neuter singular kort, definite singular and plural korte, comparative kortare, indefinite superlative kortast, definite superlative kortaste)
Derived terms
    
Etymology 2
    
From Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”), via Latin charta and German Low German kort.
Derived terms
    
References
    
- “kort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
    

Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔrt/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɔrt
- Syllabification: kort
- Homophone: kord
Noun
    
kort m inan
Declension
    
Swedish
    
    Etymology 1
    
From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus.[1] Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kɔrt/
- audio - (file) 
Adjective
    
kort (comparative kortare, superlative kortast)
- short
- Antonym: lång
 - 1901, Zacharias Topelius, Noveller:- Thomas! Thomas! [...]viskade nu Lotten, ty det var den korte som segrat, och hon hade igenkänt honom.- Thomas! Thomas! Lotten now whispered, since it was the short one that had won, and she had recognized him.
 
 
- 1931, Hjalmar Bergman, Clownen Jac:- Kortaste avståndet mellan två punkter är den krokiga linjen, ju krokigare, desto kortare.- The shortest distance between two points is the crooked line, the more crooked, the shorter.
 
 
 
Declension
    
| Inflection of kort | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 | 
| Common singular | kort | kortare | kortast | 
| Neuter singular | kort | kortare | kortast | 
| Plural | korta | kortare | kortast | 
| Masculine plural3 | korte | kortare | kortast | 
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative | 
| Masculine singular1 | korte | kortare | kortaste | 
| All | korta | kortare | kortaste | 
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Etymology 2
    
Probably from Danish kort (“a card”) or possibly from a not referenced Middle Low German word kort known in Low German, kort (“a card”).[1] Cognate with Icelandic kort (“a card, a map”) and Faroese kort (“a card, a map”), both from Old Norse kort (“a map”), all based on a variant of the Latin words charta and carta.[1]
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kʊrt/
Noun
    
kort n
- a card; a piece of stiff paper or plastic.
- a playing card
- Synonym: spelkort
 
- a card game, a game involving playing cards
- Ska vi spela kort? ― Shall we play cards?
 
- photograph
Declension
    
| Declension of kort | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | kort | kortet | kort | korten | 
| Genitive | korts | kortets | korts | kortens | 
Descendants
    
- → Finnish: kortti
Further reading
    
- kort in Svensk ordbok.