werkloos
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]werkloos (not comparable)
- alternative form of werkeloos
Usage notes
[edit]In recent years, some writers have started to make a distinction between the alternative forms werkloos and werkeloos, reserving the former for the sense “unemployed” and the latter for the sense “idle”. This distinction has no historical basis.[1]
Declension
[edit]| Declension of werkloos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | werkloos | |||
| inflected | werkloze | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | werkloos | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | werkloze | ||
| n. sing. | werkloos | |||
| plural | werkloze | |||
| definite | werkloze | |||
| partitive | werkloos | |||
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “Werkloos / werkeloos”, in Taalloket [1], Genootschap Onze Taal, 2 May 2017, archived from the original on 19 October 2021.