werkloos
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
| Inflection 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.