dankloos
Dutch
Etymology
From dank (“thank(s), gratitude”) + -loos (“-less”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dankloos (comparative danklozer, superlative meest dankloos or dankloost)
- thankless, ungrateful, yielding (little or) no gratitude or reward
- Belastingontvanger en beul zijn dankloze beroepen.
- Tax collector and executioner are thankless professions.
Inflection
| Declension of dankloos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | dankloos | |||
| inflected | dankloze | |||
| comparative | danklozer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | dankloos | danklozer | het dankloost het danklooste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | dankloze | danklozere | danklooste |
| n. sing. | dankloos | danklozer | danklooste | |
| plural | dankloze | danklozere | danklooste | |
| definite | dankloze | danklozere | danklooste | |
| partitive | dankloos | danklozers | — | |