hoog
Afrikaans
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Pronunciation
Adjective
hoog (attributive hoë, comparative hoër, superlative hoogste)
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Dutch
Etymology
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From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hoog (comparative hoger, superlative hoogst)
- high
- De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. ― The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. ― Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.
Inflection
Declension of hoog | ||||
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uninflected | hoog | |||
inflected | hoge | |||
comparative | hoger | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | hoog | hoger | het hoogst het hoogste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | hoge | hogere | hoogste |
n. sing. | hoog | hoger | hoogste | |
plural | hoge | hogere | hoogste | |
definite | hoge | hogere | hoogste | |
partitive | hoogs | hogers | — |
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- Afrikaans: hoog
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Noun
hoog (genitive hoo, partitive hoogu)
Declension
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