straks
See also: stråks
Danish
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editFrom Middle Low German strakes, strackes (“stretched, right away”), cognate with German stracks, Dutch straks (“later”). The Low German word was also borrowed to Norwegian straks,Swedish strax, Icelandic strax. The adverb is derived from the adjective Middle Low German strak (“straight”), German strack (“straight”), from Proto-West Germanic *strak.
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Dutch
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editstrax (informal, Internet, text messaging)
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editFrom strak (“straight”) + -s.
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- later today, shortly, in a moment
- tot straks ― see you later
- soon (in an unspecified amount of time)
- 2023, Abel van Gijlswijk, Ben kraak, Kaj Bos, Nout Kooij (lyrics and music), “STEEK DE MONA LISA IN DE FIK”, in BEN JE BANG?, performed by Hang Youth:
- Steek de Mona Lisa in de fik / Al die shit betekent niks / Want straks zijn we allemaal dood
- Set the Mona Lisa on fire / All that shit means nothing / Because soon we'll all be dead
- soon (used to indicate what will happen if things continue as present)
- 2020, Heleen Mees, “Straks zijn we allemaal Italianen”, in de Volkskrant[1]:
- Als de EU er niet in slaagt een mondiale speler te worden in de innovatieve sectoren, zijn we straks allemaal Italianen.
- If the EU fails to become a global player in the innovative sectors, we will all be Italians soon.
- (Suriname, elsewhere dialectal) immediately, right now
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Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Low German strak (“straight”).
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editstraks m (definite singular straksen, indefinite plural strakser, definite plural straksene)
- a very short time period; a jiffy
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References
edit- “straks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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