Adjective

quer

crosswise, transverse, athwart

Forms of quer

English

crosswise, transverse, athwart

Positive

quer

Comparative

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Superlative

—

Synonyms

schräg

diagonal

Antonyms

längs

quer appears in the following vocabulary collections:

Das Foto ist quer.
The photo is horizontal.
With sein, the descriptive word comes at the end.
Ich lege das rote Buch quer auf den Tisch.
I put the red book sideways on the table.
The verb is in position 2.
Der Stuhl steht nicht quer im Zimmer.
The chair is not standing sideways in the room.
Nicht comes before the phrase it negates.