dünn

See also: dunn, Dunn, and dúnn

German

Etymology

From Middle High German dünne, from Old High German dunni, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī.

Middle High German -u-, -ü- before nasal geminates regularly become -o-, -ö- in modern German, but for some reason the form dönn(e), though attested, remained very rare.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʏn/
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Adjective

dünn (strong nominative masculine singular dünner, comparative dünner, superlative am dünnsten)

  1. thin, slender, slim
    Antonym: dick
  2. (of a beverage etc.) weak, watery
    Synonyms: schwach, wässrig, laff
    Antonyms: stark, kräftig
    dünner Kaffee ― weak coffee
  3. (figurative) flimsy, insufficient
    Synonym: fadenscheinig
    eine dünne Ausrede ― a flimsy pretext

Declension

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Derived terms

Further reading
  • “dünn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “dünn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “dünn” in Duden online
  • “dünn” in OpenThesaurus.de
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