schaars
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Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch schaers. From Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare also Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]schaars (comparative schaarser, superlative meest schaars or schaarst)
Declension
[edit]Declension of schaars | ||||
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uninflected | schaars | |||
inflected | schaarse | |||
comparative | schaarser | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | schaars | schaarser | het schaarst het schaarste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | schaarse | schaarsere | schaarste |
n. sing. | schaars | schaarser | schaarste | |
plural | schaarse | schaarsere | schaarste | |
definite | schaarse | schaarsere | schaarste | |
partitive | schaars | schaarsers | — |
Derived terms
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- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Dutch terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kerp-
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Northern French
- Dutch terms derived from Late Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Dutch/aːrs
- Rhymes:Dutch/aːrs/1 syllable
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