Kongolese
English
Adjective
Kongolese (comparative more Kongolese, superlative most Kongolese)
- Alternative spelling of Congolese.
- 2005, Mark Michael Smith, Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 114:
- Even Hilton, who stresses the highly syncretic nature of Kongolese Catholicism, sees Mary as particularly important to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongolese Christianity: […]
Noun
Kongolese (plural Kongolese)
- Alternative spelling of Congolese.
- 1994, John Conteh-Morgan, Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 130:
- They can abandon their project now that they know the Kongolese are civilised in a profound, philosophical sense of the word.
Afrikaans
Adjective
Kongolese
- attributive form of Kongolees
Noun
Kongolese
- plural of Kongolees
German
Etymology
From Kongo + -ese with an additional l.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔŋɡoˈleːzə/
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Noun
Kongolese m (weak, genitive Kongolesen, plural Kongolesen, feminine Kongolesin)
- Congolese (person from Republic of Congo)
Declension
Declension of Kongolese [masculine, weak]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Kongolese | die | Kongolesen |
| genitive | eines | des | Kongolesen | der | Kongolesen |
| dative | einem | dem | Kongolesen | den | Kongolesen |
| accusative | einen | den | Kongolesen | die | Kongolesen |