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Definition 2024
gelukkig
gelukkig
Afrikaans
Adjective
gelukkig (attributive gelukkige, comparative gelukkiger, superlative gelukkigste)
Antonyms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
Adjective
gelukkig (comparative gelukkiger, superlative gelukkigst)
Inflection
| Inflection of gelukkig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | gelukkig | |||
| inflected | gelukkige | |||
| comparative | gelukkiger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | gelukkig | gelukkiger | het gelukkigst het gelukkigste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | gelukkige | gelukkigere | gelukkigste |
| n. sing. | gelukkig | gelukkiger | gelukkigste | |
| plural | gelukkige | gelukkigere | gelukkigste | |
| definite | gelukkige | gelukkigere | gelukkigste | |
| partitive | gelukkigs | gelukkigers | — | |
Usage notes
Indefinite adjectives describing people often remain uninflected, if they express a personal quality. This is not stylistically neutral, but has a formal, rhetorical or poetic ring to it, and can occasionally distinguish literal meanings of an adjective from a more figurative one. Furthermore, this is only done with some nouns, not all. Hence, besides the regularly inflected "een gelukkige man", the uninflected "een gelukkig man" can also be encountered.
Adverb
gelukkig