cool
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From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
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cool (uncountable)
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From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).
Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.
cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
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cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)
Declension of cool | ||||
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uninflected | cool | |||
inflected | coole | |||
comparative | cooler | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | cool | cooler | het coolst het coolste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | coole | coolere | coolste |
n. sing. | cool | cooler | coolste | |
plural | coole | coolere | coolste | |
definite | coole | coolere | coolste | |
partitive | cools | coolers | — |
cool (invariable)
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cool (strong nominative masculine singular cooler, comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist cool | sie ist cool | es ist cool | sie sind cool | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | cooler | coole | cooles | coole |
genitive | coolen | cooler | coolen | cooler | |
dative | coolem | cooler | coolem | coolen | |
accusative | coolen | coole | cooles | coole | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der coole | die coole | das coole | die coolen |
genitive | des coolen | der coolen | des coolen | der coolen | |
dative | dem coolen | der coolen | dem coolen | den coolen | |
accusative | den coolen | die coole | das coole | die coolen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein cooler | eine coole | ein cooles | (keine) coolen |
genitive | eines coolen | einer coolen | eines coolen | (keiner) coolen | |
dative | einem coolen | einer coolen | einem coolen | (keinen) coolen | |
accusative | einen coolen | eine coole | ein cooles | (keine) coolen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist cooler | sie ist cooler | es ist cooler | sie sind cooler | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | coolerer | coolere | cooleres | coolere |
genitive | cooleren | coolerer | cooleren | coolerer | |
dative | coolerem | coolerer | coolerem | cooleren | |
accusative | cooleren | coolere | cooleres | coolere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der coolere | die coolere | das coolere | die cooleren |
genitive | des cooleren | der cooleren | des cooleren | der cooleren | |
dative | dem cooleren | der cooleren | dem cooleren | den cooleren | |
accusative | den cooleren | die coolere | das coolere | die cooleren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein coolerer | eine coolere | ein cooleres | (keine) cooleren |
genitive | eines cooleren | einer cooleren | eines cooleren | (keiner) cooleren | |
dative | einem cooleren | einer cooleren | einem cooleren | (keinen) cooleren | |
accusative | einen cooleren | eine coolere | ein cooleres | (keine) cooleren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist am coolsten | sie ist am coolsten | es ist am coolsten | sie sind am coolsten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | coolster | coolste | coolstes | coolste |
genitive | coolsten | coolster | coolsten | coolster | |
dative | coolstem | coolster | coolstem | coolsten | |
accusative | coolsten | coolste | coolstes | coolste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der coolste | die coolste | das coolste | die coolsten |
genitive | des coolsten | der coolsten | des coolsten | der coolsten | |
dative | dem coolsten | der coolsten | dem coolsten | den coolsten | |
accusative | den coolsten | die coolste | das coolste | die coolsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein coolster | eine coolste | ein coolstes | (keine) coolsten |
genitive | eines coolsten | einer coolsten | eines coolsten | (keiner) coolsten | |
dative | einem coolsten | einer coolsten | einem coolsten | (keinen) coolsten | |
accusative | einen coolsten | eine coolste | ein coolstes | (keine) coolsten |
Unadapted borrowing from English cool.
cool (not comparable, no derived adverb)
Unadapted borrowing from English cool.
cool m or f or n (indeclinable)
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cool n (uncountable)
Unadapted borrowing from English cool.
cool m or f (masculine and feminine plural cools or cool)
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)
Inflection of cool | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | cool | coolare | coolast |
Neuter singular | coolt | coolare | coolast |
Plural | coola | coolare | coolast |
Masculine plural3 | coole | coolare | coolast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | coole | coolare | coolaste |
All | coola | coolare | coolaste |
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 |
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