Engels
See also: engels
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛŋɡəlz/
Proper noun
Engels (plural Engelses)
- A surname from German.
- 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 360:
- Putting the matter in this way implies a situation in which all social conflicts have disappeared; and this confirms the interpretation according to which Marx and Engels held that the abolition of class divisions would at the same time abolish all other sources of conflict.
Derived terms
Translations
surname
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Engels
- plural of Engel
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛ̃ˑŋəls/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Engels
- English (the language)
Adjective
Engels (attributive Engelse, not comparable)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛŋəls/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: En‧gels
- Rhymes: -ɛŋəls
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch engelsch, engelsc, inhelsc; compare Old English Englisċ.
Adjective
Engels (comparative Engelser, superlative meest Engels or Engelst)
Declension
| Declension of Engels | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Engels | |||
| inflected | Engelse | |||
| comparative | Engelser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | Engels | Engelser | het Engelst het Engelste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste |
| n. sing. | Engels | Engelser | Engelste | |
| plural | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste | |
| definite | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste | |
| partitive | Engels | Engelsers | — | |
Alternative forms
- (obsolete spelling) Engelsch
Derived terms
Proper noun
Engels n
- English (language)
Alternative forms
- (obsolete spelling) Engelsch
Derived terms
- Engelssprekend
- Middelengels
- Nieuwengels
- Oudengels
- Vroegnieuwengels
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
Engels (comparative Engelser, superlative meest Engels or Engelst)
- (obsolete) angelical
- Synonym: engelachtig
- 1654, Joost van den Vondel, Lucifer:
- Hy, die te vore door een Engelsche Majesteit ondersteunt, Gode aengenaem en waert was, borst, toen hy den mensch naer Godts beelt geschapen zagh, door eenen boosaerdigen naeryver uit, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
| Declension of Engels | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Engels | |||
| inflected | Engelse | |||
| comparative | Engelser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | Engels | Engelser | het Engelst het Engelste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste |
| n. sing. | Engels | Engelser | Engelste | |
| plural | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste | |
| definite | Engelse | Engelsere | Engelste | |
| partitive | Engels | Engelsers | — | |
Alternative forms
- (obsolete spelling) Engelsch
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛŋl̩s/
Audio: (file)
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
Engels
- genitive singular of Engel
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “cf Dutch”)
Proper noun
Engels m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Engels' or (with an article) Engels, feminine genitive Engels, plural Engels or Engelsens)
- a surname
Declension
Declension of Engels [masculine // feminine, surname]
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | |||||||
| indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | (ein) | (der) | Engels | (eine) | (die) | Engels | (die) | Engels, Engelsens |
| genitive | (eines) | (des) | Engels', Engels1 | (einer) | (der) | Engels | (der) | Engels, Engelsens |
| dative | (einem) | (dem) | Engels | (einer) | (der) | Engels | (den) | Engels, Engelsens |
| accusative | (einen) | (den) | Engels | (eine) | (die) | Engels | (die) | Engels, Engelsens |
1With an article.