onvrij

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch onvri; from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle English unfre (English unfree). By surface analysis, on- +‎ vrij.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

onvrij (not comparable)

  1. unfree, nonfree
    Antonym: vrij
    In een onvrije samenleving worden kritische stemmen gesmoord. ― In an unfree society, critical voices are repressed.

Declension

Declension of onvrij
uninflected onvrij
inflected onvrije
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial onvrij
indefinite m./f. sing. onvrije
n. sing. onvrij
plural onvrije
definite onvrije
partitive onvrijs

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: onvry
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