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9<br />

Adjectives<br />

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-vormig corresponds to English ‘-shaped’ and is still a very productive<br />

ending, e.g. trechtervormig ‘funnel-shaped’, bolvormig<br />

‘spherical-shaped’, tegelvormig ‘tile-shaped’.<br />

-waardig equivalent to English ‘-worthy’, e.g. bezienswaardig ‘worth<br />

seeing’, bewonderenswaardig ‘praiseworthy’,<br />

betreurenswaardig ‘lamentable’, zeewaardig ‘seaworthy’,<br />

merkwaardig ‘remarkable’. This ending is always stressed.<br />

-aardig not a very common ending and no longer productive, e.g.<br />

plantaardig ‘vegetable’, kwaadaardig ‘malignant’, goedaardig<br />

‘benign’. This ending is always stressed.<br />

-matig this ending denotes a conformity with what is expressed in<br />

the noun it is suffixed to. It is quite a common ending and is<br />

always stressed, e.g. regelmatig ‘regular’, kunstmatig<br />

‘artificial’, instinctmatig ‘instinctive’.<br />

-vrij this corresponds to the English endings ‘-free’ and ‘-less’ and<br />

is still very productive, e.g. boomvrij ‘treeless’, autovrij ‘free<br />

of cars’, loodvrij ‘unleaded’.<br />

9.7.2<br />

Prefixes<br />

on- is the most common means of negating adjectives and is used<br />

in a similar way to English ‘un-’, e.g. onvriendelijk<br />

‘unfriendly’, ondankbaar ‘ungrateful’. On- is always<br />

unstressed. There are a few compounds with on- whose<br />

principal component does not exist as a separate word, e.g.<br />

onnozel ‘silly’, ondeugend ‘naughty’.<br />

in- Some foreign words, as in English, are negated by the<br />

addition of in- or im-, e.g. inconsequent ‘inconsistent’,<br />

inefficiënt ‘inefficient’, immoreel ‘immoral’, intolerant<br />

‘intolerant’.<br />

Dutch has a number of adjectival intensifiers which are very commonly<br />

used:<br />

aarts- aartsdom ‘really stupid’, aartslui ‘very lazy’.<br />

dood- very common, e.g. doodarm ‘very poor’, doodgewoon ‘quite<br />

ordinary’, doodeenvoudig ‘simple’, doodstil ‘very quiet’,<br />

doodmoe ‘very tired’. Note: doodsbang ‘very afraid’,<br />

doodsbleek ‘very pale’.

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