hoog
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦʊəχ/
Dutch
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-Germanic *hauhaz.
Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, East Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -oːx
- IPA(key): /ɦoːx/
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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 | — | |
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Derived terms
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Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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