sprakeloos
Afrikaans
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch sprakeloos, equivalent to spraak (“speech”) + -e- + -loos (“less”).
Adjective
sprakeloos (attributive sprakelose, not comparable)
- synonym of spraakloos (“speechless”)
Derived terms
- sprakeloosheid
Dutch
Etymology
From spraak (“speech”) + -e- + -loos (“-less”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: spra‧ke‧loos
Adjective
sprakeloos (comparative sprakelozer, superlative meest sprakeloos or sprakeloost)
Declension
| Declension of sprakeloos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | sprakeloos | |||
| inflected | sprakeloze | |||
| comparative | sprakelozer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | sprakeloos | sprakelozer | het sprakeloost het sprakelooste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | sprakeloze | sprakelozere | sprakelooste |
| n. sing. | sprakeloos | sprakelozer | sprakelooste | |
| plural | sprakeloze | sprakelozere | sprakelooste | |
| definite | sprakeloze | sprakelozere | sprakelooste | |
| partitive | sprakeloos | sprakelozers | — | |