werkloos
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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 | ||||
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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 , Genootschap Onze Taal, 2017 May 2, retrieved November 3, 2019.