fremd
Strange, unusual, out of the ordinaryStrange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
Meaning
3 senses(dialectal, rare)Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
a fremd day
Something fremd has been going on here.
(dialectal, rare)Not kin, unrelated; foreign.
(obsolete)Wild; untamed.
Origin
From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremedeFrom Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”).
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Forms
fremder/more fremd, fremdest/most fremd| Comparative | fremder / more fremd Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | fremdest / most fremd Lesson |
regular
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.