Indisch
See also: indisch
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪn.dis/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: In‧disch
Adjective
Indisch (comparative Indischer, superlative meest Indisch)
- (Netherlands) pertaining to the East Indies, especially the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)
- (Belgium) Indian; pertaining to India
- Synonym: Indiaas
Usage notes
In the Netherlands, when speaking of people from the Dutch East Indies, Indisch technically refers to all people somehow related to the former colony (including totoks, Chinese Indonesians and so on), but it is mostly used for and by Indo-Europeans or Indo's. That is why for example Moluccan people in the Netherlands typically do not use Indisch to describe themselves.
Declension
| Declension of Indisch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Indisch | |||
| inflected | Indische | |||
| comparative | Indischer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | Indisch | Indischer | het meest Indisch het meest Indische | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Indische | Indischere | meest Indische |
| n. sing. | Indisch | Indischer | meest Indische | |
| plural | Indische | Indischere | meest Indische | |
| definite | Indische | Indischere | meest Indische | |
| partitive | Indisch | Indischers | — | |
Derived terms
- Chinees-Indisch
- Indisch-Nederlands
- Indische
- Indische gans
- Indische kievit
- Indische Nederlander
- Indische neushoorn
- Indische Oceaan
- Indische schaarbek
- Indische slangenhalsvogel
- Indische vos
- Nederlands-Indisch
Related terms
See also
Proper noun
Indisch n (uncountable)
- (linguistics) Indic; the Indo-Aryan language family
- Synonym: Indo-Arisch
Derived terms
German
Proper noun
Indisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Indisch or Indischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Indische, alternative genitive Indischen, no plural)
- (informal) any Indian language