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fein

1. Alternate spelling of feen. Popularized by Travis Scott

From Middle High German fīn, from Old French fin, ultimately from Latin finis. See English fine for more.

• IPA^(key): /faɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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fein (strong nominative masculine singular feiner, comparative feiner, superlative am feinsten)

1. fine (not rough, coarse, or thick)

   Antonym: grob

   sehr feines Mehl ― very fine flour

   ein feiner Sinn ― a fine sense

2. (dated, except in certain expressions) fine; very good; as it should be

   ein feiner Kerl ― a fine young man

3. refined; posh; fancy

   ein feines Restaurant ― a fancy restaurant

4. (often dative reflexive) too good (not willing to do something or associate with it because one thinks it beneath one) [with zu (+ dative) ‘for an act’ or für (+ accusative) ‘for someone’]

   Er ist (sich) zu fein zum Abwaschen.

   He thinks himself too good for doing the dishes.

   Er ist (sich) zu fein für uns.

   He thinks himself too good for our company.

• Feinschnitt
• feinsinnig
• Feinstaub
• verfeinern

• → Czech: fajn
• → Kashubian: fëjn
• → Lithuanian: fainas
• → Polish: fajny
  • → Belarusian: фа́йны (fájny)
  • → Ukrainian: фа́йний (fájnyj)
• → Greater Polish: fejn
• → Romanian: fain
• → Serbo-Croatian: fajn
• → Slovincian: fejn

• “fein” in Duden online
• “fein”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “fein” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Neubearbeitung (A–F).

• fäin (now less common)

From Middle High German fīn, from Old French fin. Doublet of dated féng (“rather”). The form fäin is from the uninflected stem, while féng developed before vocalic suffixes. (Adverbial féng might continue *fīne formed by analogy with such pairs as Middle High German lanc, lange or balt, balde.) The form fein cannot have developed regularly in any position and therefore must have been influenced by German fein.

• IPA^(key): [fɑɪ̯n]

fein (masculine feinen, neuter feint, comparative méi fein, superlative am feinsten)

1. nice, friendly

   Synonyms: frëndlech, gentil

2. fine, delicate, subtle

   Synonym: reng

• fain, foin

From Latin faenum.

fein oblique singular, m (oblique plural feinz, nominative singular feinz, nominative plural fein)

1. hay

• Middle French: foin
  • French: foin
• Norman: fain

fein

1. nice, good, fine

• fain (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• fagn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin fēnum, from faenum.

fein m

1. (Sursilvan) hay

• (Sursilvan) far fein

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) fanar

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