werkeloos
Dutch
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɛr.kəˌloːs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: wer‧ke‧loos
Adjective
werkeloos (not comparable)
- having nothing to do, doing nothing; idle, workless
- werkeloos toezien — to watch idly (doing nothing to help)
- workless, jobless, unemployed
- 1770 August 6, “Groot - Brittanien”, in Leydse Maandagſche Courant, number 94, page 1:
- Veele Scheeps - Timmerlieden , die werkeloos waren , zyn bereids in dienſt genoomen , ...
- Many ship carpenters who were unemployed have already been taken into service, ...
Usage notes
In recent years, some writers have started to make a distinction between the alternative forms werkloos and werkeloos, reserving the former for the sense “unemployed” and the latter for the sense “idle”. This distinction has no historical basis.[1]
Inflection
| Inflection of werkeloos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | werkeloos | |||
| inflected | werkeloze | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | werkeloos | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | werkeloze | ||
| n. sing. | werkeloos | |||
| plural | werkeloze | |||
| definite | werkeloze | |||
| partitive | werkeloos | |||
Derived terms
- werkeloze (“idle person”)
- werkeloosheid (“idleness”)
References
- “Werkloos / werkeloos”, in Taalloket , Genootschap Onze Taal, 2017 May 2, retrieved November 3, 2019.
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