preferabel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French préférable. Equivalent to prefereren + -abel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /preː.fəˈraː.bəl/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: pre‧fe‧ra‧bel
- Rhymes: -aːbəl
Adjective
preferabel (comparative preferabeler, superlative preferabelst)
Declension
| Declension of preferabel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | preferabel | |||
| inflected | preferabele | |||
| comparative | preferabeler | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | preferabel | preferabeler | het preferabelst het preferabelste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | preferabele | preferabelere | preferabelste |
| n. sing. | preferabel | preferabeler | preferabelste | |
| plural | preferabele | preferabelere | preferabelste | |
| definite | preferabele | preferabelere | preferabelste | |
| partitive | preferabels | preferabelers | — | |
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “preferabel”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute