bestendig
Dutch
Alternative forms
- bestandig (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from German beständig.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bestendig (comparative bestendiger, superlative bestendigst)
- lasting, permanent, as in bestendige deputatie (executive college in a Belgian province)
- resistant, enduring
- (in compounds) -proof
Inflection
| Declension of bestendig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | bestendig | |||
| inflected | bestendige | |||
| comparative | bestendiger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | bestendig | bestendiger | het bestendigst het bestendigste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | bestendige | bestendigere | bestendigste |
| n. sing. | bestendig | bestendiger | bestendigste | |
| plural | bestendige | bestendigere | bestendigste | |
| definite | bestendige | bestendigere | bestendigste | |
| partitive | bestendigs | bestendigers | — | |