Kryptonian / English Dictionary

It's worth noting here that Kryptonian is its own language, and has its own rules about language structure. The dictionary here should be used as a tool to help understanding or learning Kryptonian. Just as with any language, if you try to translate a sentence by just replacing your native words with Kryptonian ones, you will fail miserably. You must take into account differences in grammar, idiomatic meanings, differences in word meanings, and so on.

Dictionary Tips

How to Query: I have made the dictionary very liberal in the results that it will return on a query; you may search for any word or part of a word. However, the search is only able to search for one word at a time.

Quantity of Results: Search results are limited to the first 50 results alphabetically ordered by the main English entry; keep that in mind in case your search comes up with many results but you still can't find what you are looking for.

Quality of Results: Keep in mind, too, that this is a multi-lingual dictionary. There isn't always a direct translation between two languages; the word you are searching for in English may not return results - or, at least, the results you may be looking for. Sometimes you may need to be creative (or less creative) in your word searches.

Check the Meaning: Be sure to look at the full entry for words returned to make sure you have the meaning you are looking for. For example, if you search for 'boy' you will get results for 'baby', 'child', and 'adolescent' all of which can be translated to 'boy' in English, but which apply to different contexts in Kryptonian.

See Also: Whenever you encounter a "see also:" in the word description, you should be able to copy and paste any of the Kryptonian words into the Kryptonian search as a quick way to look them up.

Dictionary Legend
  • adj -- adjective
  • adv -- adverb
  • conj -- conjection
  • gn -- gendered noun
  • inter -- interjection
  • n -- noun
  • num -- cardinal number
  • pre -- prefix
  • pro -- pronoun
  • suf -- suffix
  • v1 -- class 1 verb
  • v2-fu -- class 2 verb - future tense
  • v2-pa -- class 2 verb - past tense
  • v2-pr -- class 2 verb - present tense