vreemd
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch vreemd, from Middle Dutch vremt, vreemt, from Old Dutch fremithi, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *perəm-, *prom- (“forth, forward”), from *per- (“forward, through”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frɪəmt/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
vreemd (attributive vreemde, comparative vreemder, superlative vreemdste)
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vremt, vreemt, from Old Dutch fremithi, from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *perəm-, *prom- (“forth, forward”), from *per- (“to go over”). Cognate with German fremd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vreːmt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: vreemd
- Rhymes: -eːmt
Adjective
vreemd (comparative vreemder, superlative vreemdst)
- strange, weird, odd
- Synonyms: raar, eigenaardig, buitenissig
- foreign, exotic
Declension
| Declension of vreemd | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | vreemd | |||
| inflected | vreemde | |||
| comparative | vreemder | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | vreemd | vreemder | het vreemdst het vreemdste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | vreemde | vreemdere | vreemdste |
| n. sing. | vreemd | vreemder | vreemdste | |
| plural | vreemde | vreemdere | vreemdste | |
| definite | vreemde | vreemdere | vreemdste | |
| partitive | vreemds | vreemders | — | |