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]
Inflection[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 , Genootschap Onze Taal, 2017 May 2, retrieved November 3, 2019.