sporadisch
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
sporadisch (comparative sporadischer, superlative meest sporadisch or sporadischt)
- sporadic (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Inflection edit
Inflection of sporadisch | ||||
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uninflected | sporadisch | |||
inflected | sporadische | |||
comparative | sporadischer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | sporadisch | sporadischer | het sporadischt het sporadischte | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | sporadische | sporadischere | sporadischte |
n. sing. | sporadisch | sporadischer | sporadischte | |
plural | sporadische | sporadischere | sporadischte | |
definite | sporadische | sporadischere | sporadischte | |
partitive | sporadisch | sporadischers | — |
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: sporadis
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French sporadique, assimilated to the native suffix -isch. This is in turns borrowed from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), cognate with Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros) and Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sporadisch (strong nominative masculine singular sporadischer, comparative sporadischer, superlative am sporadischsten)
- sporadic
- Synonym: vereinzelt
Declension edit
Positive forms of sporadisch
Comparative forms of sporadisch
Superlative forms of sporadisch
Adverb edit
sporadisch
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989), “sporadisch”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “sporadisch” in Duden online