Kongolese

English

Adjective

Kongolese (comparative more Kongolese, superlative most Kongolese)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  1. attributive form of Kongolees

Noun

Kongolese

  1. plural of Kongolees

German

Etymology

From Kongo + -ese.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔŋɡoˈleːzə/
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Noun

Kongolese m (weak, genitive Kongolesen, plural Kongolesen, feminine Kongolesin)

  1. Congolese (person from Republic of Congo)

Declension

Further reading

  • Kongolese” in Duden online
  • Kongolese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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