Masculino

pech

Frases

Significado

Dat ongeval was
🧽

brute pech .

That accident was brutal bad luck.

Ler máis

(Inglés)

(masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) bad luck; misfortune
(masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) breakdown, e.g. of a car

Frecuencia

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/pɛx/

Relativo a inglés

Relativo a neerlandés

In summary

From German Pech (“bad luck; pitch, tar”), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Doublet of inherited pek (“pitch”). Also cognate with English pitch. The sense “breakdown” is a Dutch innovation. It is probably modelled on the word ongeluk, which means both “bad luck, misfortune” and “accident”. Since pech typically denotes a lesser kind of bad luck, it came to be used for a lesser kind of traffic accident too. German uses Panne instead; compare Dutch panne.