veilig
Afrikaans
Adjective
veilig (attributive veilige, comparative veiliger, superlative veiligste)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch veilich, from Proto-Germanic *failijaz (“true, familiar, good”). Note the conflation of the stem with *faliz (“venal”) in cognates Dutch veil (“venal”) and German feil (“venal”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
veilig (comparative veiliger, superlative veiligst)
Inflection
| Declension of veilig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | veilig | |||
| inflected | veilige | |||
| comparative | veiliger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | veilig | veiliger | het veiligst het veiligste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | veilige | veiligere | veiligste |
| n. sing. | veilig | veiliger | veiligste | |
| plural | veilige | veiligere | veiligste | |
| definite | veilige | veiligere | veiligste | |
| partitive | veiligs | veiligers | — | |
Adverb
veilig