gelukkig
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Pronunciation
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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.
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