goed
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]goed
- (nonstandard, childish) simple past and past participle of go
- 2026 February 16, Tim Jonze, “‘I love you twenty-sixty times’: how lyrics written by a three-year-old became tear-inducing viral hits”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 February 2026:
- Indeed, fans love the fact that characters in the songs goed somewhere rather than went, or flied instead of flew. “Some people have said that the songs touch them because they were never deeply listened to as a child,” says [Stephen] Spencer.
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch goed, from Middle Dutch goet, from Old Dutch guot, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]goed (attributive goeie, comparative beter, superlative beste)
Inflection
[edit]| predicative | attributive | independent | partitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||||
| positive | goed | goeie | goeies | goeds | |
| comparative | beter | betere | beteres | beters | |
| superlative | beste | bestes | — | ||
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch goet, from Old Dutch guot, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-.
Adjective
[edit]goed (comparative beter, superlative best)
- good (not bad)
- Antonym: slecht
- Ik voel me goed. ― I feel good.
- Het is een goede informatiebron. ― It is a good source of information.
- correct, right (factually or morally)
- all right, fine
- Dat is goed hoor. ― That's all right.
- (of quantities)
- considerable (in amount or size)
- Een goed aantal mensen heeft zich al aangemeld. ― A good number of people have already signed up.
- at least as much as
- De reis duurt een goede tien uur. ― The journey takes a good ten hours.
- considerable (in amount or size)
- (of moments in time) given, certain (unknown, undetermined or unspecified) (used in prepositional phrases with op)
- Synonym: gegeven
- Op een goede dag besloot hij de wijde wereld in te trekken. ― One day he decided to go out into the wide world.
- Het zal op een goed moment toch aan het licht komen. ― But it will come to light at some time.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of goed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | goed | |||
| inflected | goede | |||
| comparative | beter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | goed | beter | het best het beste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | goede | betere | beste |
| n. sing. | goed | beter | beste | |
| plural | goede | betere | beste | |
| definite | goede | betere | beste | |
| partitive | goeds | beters | — | |
Next to the regular form goede, the form goeie is very commonly used informally.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- algoed
- goed doel
- goed volk
- goedaardig
- Goede Herder
- Goede Vrijdag
- Goede Week
- goedemiddag
- goedemorgen
- goedenavond
- goedendag
- goedertieren
- goedgeefs
- goedgelovig
- goedgemutst
- goedgunstig
- goedhartig
- goedheid
- goedkoop
- goedlachs
- goedmaken
- goedmoedig
- goedpraten
- goedschiks
- goedzak
- goegemeente
- goelijk
- Goeree
- ingoed
- keigoed
- steengoed
- stikgoed
- supergoed
- voorgoed
- als het goed is
- als ik het goed heb
- eind goed, al goed
- goed en wel
- goed zo
- goede bekomst
- goede sier maken
- haastige spoed is zelden goed
- in goed gezelschap zijn
- in goede aarde vallen
- in goede banen leiden
- in goede handen
- in goeden doen
- kort en goed
- net zo goed
- nou goed?
- op een goede dag
- op goed geluk
- van goeden huize
- wie goed doet, goed ontmoet
- zo goed als
Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: goed
- Javindo: goet
- Jersey Dutch: xût
- Negerhollands: goed, goei, goeie, got, gu, gue, guet
- Skepi Creole Dutch: gut
- →⇒ Betawi: yahut
Adverb
[edit]goed
Usage notes
[edit]Adverbs match adjectives in form in modern Dutch. The separate adverb wel also exists, but this word is archaic.
Noun
[edit]goed n (plural goederen, diminutive goedje n)
- (usually in the plural) goods, wares, commodities, assets
- Synonym: waren
- (archaic) an estate, a manor
- (informal) clothes, clothing, outfit
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Berbice Creole Dutch: gutu
- Negerhollands: goed, gut, got
- → Virgin Islands Creole: somgut (dated)
- Skepi Creole Dutch: gut, good
- → Sranan Tongo: gudu
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]goed
- inflection of goeden:
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡoːɨ̯d/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɡɔi̯d/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɡoːd/
Noun
[edit]goed
- soft mutation of coed
Mutation
[edit]| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| coed | goed | nghoed | choed |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]goed
Inflection
[edit]| Inflection of goed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | goed | |||
| inflected | goede | |||
| comparative | better | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | goed | better | it bêst it bêste | |
| indefinite | c. sing. | goede | bettere | bêste |
| n. sing. | goed | better | bêste | |
| plural | goede | bettere | bêste | |
| definite | goede | bettere | bêste | |
| partitive | goeds | betters | — | |
Further reading
[edit]- “goed (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zealandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch goet, from Old Dutch guot, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-.
Adjective
[edit]goed
Inflection
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
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