schaars
See also: Schaars
Dutch
Alternative forms
- schaers (obsolete)
Etymology
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From Middle Dutch schaers. From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., 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
Adjective
schaars (comparative schaarser, superlative meest schaars or schaarst)
Inflection
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 | — |