achtste
Dutch
| < 7th | 8th | 9th > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : acht Ordinal : achtste | ||
Etymology
From acht + -ste (superlative).
Displaced Middle Dutch achtende, from Old Dutch *ahtundo, which had -n- by analogy with *sivondo (“seventh”) and *nigundo (“ninth”). An even older form was Middle Dutch achte, achtte, from Old Dutch *ahtodo, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑx(t)stə/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: acht‧ste
Inflection
| Inflection of achtste | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | achtste | |||
| inflected | achtste | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | achtste | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | achtste | ||
| n. sing. | achtste | |||
| plural | achtste | |||
| definite | achtste | |||
| partitive | ||||
Descendants
- Afrikaans: agste
West Frisian
| < 7th | 8th | 9th > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : acht Ordinal : achtste | ||
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “achtste”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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