laf
See also: Laf
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑf
Adjective
laf (comparative laffer, superlative lafst)
- cowardly
- Maar de algemene regel is dat de man, "zwak of sterk", volgens Kuyper "Koning in zijn huis" is en dat "Een man die zijn vrouw in huis 'de baas laat spelen' laf en onmannelijk is. — But the general rule is that the man, "weak or strong," according to Kuyper "is king of his house" and that "a man who lets his wife 'play the boss' is cowardly and unmanly."
Inflection
Inflection of laf | ||||
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uninflected | laf | |||
inflected | laffe | |||
comparative | laffer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | laf | laffer | het lafst het lafste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | laffe | laffere | lafste |
n. sing. | laf | laffer | lafste | |
plural | laffe | laffere | lafste | |
definite | laffe | laffere | lafste | |
partitive | lafs | laffers | — |
Volapük
Declension
declension of laf
singular | plural | |
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nominative | laf | lafs |
genitive | lafa | lafas |
dative | lafe | lafes |
accusative | lafi | lafis |
vocative 1 | o laf! | o lafs! |
predicative 2 | lafu | lafus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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