egal
See also: égal
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English egal, from Old French egal, igal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of equal and aequalis.
Adjective
egal (comparative more egal, superlative most egal)
- (obsolete) Equal; impartial.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 4:
- Whose souls do bear an egal yoke of love,
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
egal (neuter egalt, plural and definite singular attributive egale)
- Uniform or smooth/even; regular or straight
Derived terms
- egalisere
- egalitet
- uegal
Further reading
- “egal” in Den Danske Ordbog
East Central German
Further reading
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈɡaːl/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
egal (indeclinable, predicative only)
- (usually predicative only) all the same, unimportant
- Synonyms: gleichgültig, gleich
- Das ist mir egal. ― That's all the same to me.
- Es könnte mir gar nicht egaler sein. ― I couldn't care less.
- (dated, still used by some older speakers) the same, identical, alike, matching
Declension
Indeclinable, predicative-only.
Adverb
egal
Interjection
egal
- expresses indifference
- "Willst du zuerst ins Kino oder ins Café gehen?" "Egal."
- "Do you want to go to the cinema or the cafe first? " "I don't mind."
Synonyms
- wumpe (colloquial, dialectal)
Derived terms
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɡal/
Middle English
Alternative forms
- egall, egalle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛːɡaːl/, /ɛˈɡaːl/
Adjective
egal
Descendants
- English: egal (obsolete)
References
- “ē̆gāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin aequālis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French egal.
Descendants
- Occitan: egal
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aequalis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 212
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈɡal/
Adjective
egal m or n (feminine singular egală, masculine plural egali, feminine and neuter plural egale)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
ègāl, egȃl (Cyrillic spelling ѐга̄л, ега̑л)
References
Swedish
Adjective
egal (not comparable)
- unimportant, not mattering
- Det är egalt vilken vi väljer
- It doesn't matter which one we choose
- Det är mig egalt
- It's not important to me / I don't care
Declension
Inflection of egal | |||
---|---|---|---|
Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | egal | — | — |
Neuter singular | egalt | — | — |
Plural | egala | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | egale | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | egale | — | — |
All | egala | — | — |
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 |
References
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