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Other unemphatic forms of the possessive pronouns (see 8.2) occur in
such superlatives depending on the subject of the sentence:
Ik ben ’s ochtends altijd op m’n best.
I’m always (at my) best in the mornings.
Zij is ’s avonds laat op d’r best.
She’s (at her) best late at night.
10.1.2.4
In the written language the following adverbial superlatives occur which
are not translatable as such into English:
Ik zou dat ten zeerste betreuren.
I would regret that very much.
Dat is ten strengste verboden.
That is strictly forbidden.
Het moet ten spoedigste worden afgeleverd.
It must be delivered immediately.
Hij heeft het ten stelligste ontkend.
He flatly denied it.
10.2
Intensifying adverbs
There is a variety of these, as indeed there is in English too, which are
used to emphasize other adverbs and adjectives (see 9.3.5).
10.2.1
‘Very’: heel, erg, zeer, hartstikke
The three are completely synonymous but zeer is rather formal or
particularly emphatic and only erg can be used with negatives, e.g. Hij
was niet erg groot ‘He wasn’t very big’. Heel, as an adjective, can also
mean ‘whole’ and erg can mean ‘terrible’, e.g. Het was heel erg ‘It was
quite awful’, een erge aardbeving ‘a terrible earthquake’. Occasionally
one gets a doubling up of heel and erg as adverbs, e.g. Het is heel erg
moeilijk ‘It is very, very difficult’. It is also common for the adverbs erg
and particularly heel to inflect when preceding an inflected attributive
adjective, but this should be avoided in writing, e.g. een hele mooie boom
= een heel mooie boom ‘a very beautiful tree’.
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