heelder
Dutch
Etymology
Originally the genitive plural of heel (“whole, entire”). Phrases like heelder dagen must therefore originally be regarded as a temporal genitive, although they will not today be generally recognized as such.
Adjective
heelder (comparative heelderder, superlative heelderst)
- (Belgium) entire, whole (used with a plural noun)
- Hij zit heelder dagen thuis. ― He sits at home for entire days at a time.
Usage notes
- Very rarely inflected.
Declension
| Declension of heelder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | heelder | |||
| inflected | heeldere | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | heelder | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | heeldere | ||
| n. sing. | heelder | |||
| plural | heeldere | |||
| definite | heeldere | |||
| partitive | heelders | |||