Kaput
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English
Adjective
Kaput (not comparable)
- (slang) Out of order; not working; broken; unable to withstand adverse action, facing elimination, (about to be) finished off [as in a certain German leader was kaput near the end of WWII].
Thesaurus
SOL, all bets off, all gone, all off, all over, all up, annihilated, at an end, ausgespielt, bankrupt, blasted, blighted, broken, canceled, complete, concluded, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, desolated, destroyed, devastated, done, done for, done in, done with, down the drain, down-and-out, ended, expired, expunged, extinct, fallen, fini, finished, gone, gone glimmering, gone to pot, had it, in ruins, irremediable, kaputt, no more, over, overthrown, passed away, perfected, perished, ravaged, ruined, ruinous, set at rest, settled, shot, spoiled, terminated, through, through with, undone, vanished, washed up, wasted, wiped out, wound up, wrecked, zapped
Pronunciation
- IPA: [kəˈpʊt]
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German kaputt, though more often rendered kaput in English; via Yiddish קאַפּוט (kaput, “lost, dead”). The same word is also borrowed into Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Turkish, with approximately the same meaning.
Translations
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
kàpūt m. (Cyrillic spelling капут)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kàpūt | kaputi |
| genitive | kapúta | kaputa |
| dative | kaputu | kaputima |
| accusative | kaput | kapute |
| vocative | kapute | kaputi |
| locative | kaputu | kaputima |
| instrumental | kaputom | kaputima |
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kǎpuːt/
- Hyphenation: ka‧put
