bekwaam
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈkʋaːm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: be‧kwaam
- Rhymes: -aːm
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bequaem, from Proto-Germanic *bi-quēmi-, *bikwemaną. Doublet of bekomen. Cognate with German bequem.
Inflection
| Inflection of bekwaam | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | bekwaam | |||
| inflected | bekwame | |||
| comparative | bekwamer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | bekwaam | bekwamer | het bekwaamst het bekwaamste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | bekwame | bekwamere | bekwaamste |
| n. sing. | bekwaam | bekwamer | bekwaamste | |
| plural | bekwame | bekwamere | bekwaamste | |
| definite | bekwame | bekwamere | bekwaamste | |
| partitive | bekwaams | bekwamers | — | |
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: bequaam
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “bekwaam”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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