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9.6.4
Colours are het groen, het geel etc.:
Het groen van jouw trui bevalt me niet.
The green of your pullover doesn’t appeal to me.
9.6.5
Note that adjectives of nationality are used in almost all cases to form the
name of the feminine inhabitant, e.g. Chinees = Chinese, de Chinese = the
Chinese woman (see Appendix 2).
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Formation of adjectives
Suffixes
It should be noted that the endings -aardig, -kundig, -matig, -talig,
-waardig and -zijdig take the stress, e.g. plantáárdig ‘vegetable’, veelzíjdig
‘versatile’.
Note: Sometimes the same word can take a number of the endings given
below, each new combination giving a new word, e.g. kinderachtig ‘childish,
puerile’, kinds ‘senile’, kinderlijk ‘child-like’.
-(e)loos is equivalent in every way to English ‘-less’, e.g. doelloos
‘aimless’, ouderloos ‘parentless’, hopeloos ‘hopeless’.
Note: Werkloos ‘unemployed’ is often pronounced werkeloos
and can be written that way too.
-end(e) actually the addition of -d(e) to the infinitive to form a
present participle that can act as an adjective, e.g. kokend
‘boiling’, de arbeidende klasse ‘the working class’. (see 11.15)
-achtig a very common and useful ending and one that is still
productive. It often renders English ‘-like’, e.g. katachtig ‘catlike’,
bladachtig ‘leaf-like’. The possibilities are infinite, e.g.
Dat kind doet zo grote-mensen-achtig ‘That child behaves so
much like an adult’, oudevrijsterachtig ‘old-maidish’. It can
also be suffixed to colours to render ‘-ish’, e.g. groenachtig
Formation of
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