verklemmt
English
Adjective
verklemmt (comparative more verklemmt, superlative most verklemmt)
- Alternative spelling of verklempt.
- 2007, Susan G[oldsmith] Wooldridge, Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 218:
- […] I noticed that Mom could barely hold a fork, write, walk, get up, sit down. She was verklemmt. Vermischt. More Yiddish words that mean what they sound like.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛrˈklɛmt/, /fər-/, [fɛɐ̯-], [fɐ-]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ver‧klemmt
Participle
verklemmt
- past participle of verklemmen
Adjective
verklemmt (strong nominative masculine singular verklemmter, comparative verklemmter, superlative am verklemmtesten)
- inhibited; uptight; prudish
- Erst wirkte er total verklemmt, aber nach ein paar Bier war er der Mittelpunkt der Tanzfläche.
- At first he seemed extremely uptight, but after a few beers he became the epicentre of the dancefloor.
Declension
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Verb
verklemmt
- inflection of verklemmen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative