hoog
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦʊəχ/
Audio (file)
Dutch
Alternative forms
- hooge (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦoːx/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: hoog
- Rhymes: -oːx
Adjective
hoog (comparative hoger, superlative hoogst)
- high
- De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. ― The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. ― Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.
Inflection
| Inflection of hoog | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | hoog | |||
| inflected | hoge | |||
| comparative | hoger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | hoog | hoger | het hoogst het hoogste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | hoge | hogere | hoogste |
| n. sing. | hoog | hoger | hoogste | |
| plural | hoge | hogere | hoogste | |
| definite | hoge | hogere | hoogste | |
| partitive | hoogs | hogers | — | |
Antonyms
Derived terms
Estonian
Etymology
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Declension
Declension of hoog (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hoog | hood |
| genitive | hoo | hoogude |
| partitive | hoogu | hooge / hoogusid |
| illative | hoogu / hoosse | hoogudesse |
| inessive | hoos | hoogudes |
| elative | hoost | hoogudest |
| allative | hoole | hoogudele |
| adessive | hool | hoogudel |
| ablative | hoolt | hoogudelt |
| translative | hooks | hoogudeks |
| terminative | hooni | hoogudeni |
| essive | hoona | hoogudena |
| abessive | hoota | hoogudeta |
| comitative | hooga | hoogudega |
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hāch, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh. Cognates include West Frisian heech and German hoch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːɣ/
- Hyphenation: hoog
- Rhymes: -oːɣ
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “hoog”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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