Javaans
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaːˈvaːns/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Ja‧vaans
- Rhymes: -aːns
Adjective
Javaans (comparative Javaanser, superlative meest Javaans or Javaanst)
- Javan, in, from or relating to Java, the most populous island of Indonesia
- Javan, in, from or relating to the Javanese people
Declension
| Declension of Javaans | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | Javaans | |||
| inflected | Javaanse | |||
| comparative | Javaanser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | Javaans | Javaanser | het Javaanst het Javaanste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | Javaanse | Javaansere | Javaanste |
| n. sing. | Javaans | Javaanser | Javaanste | |
| plural | Javaanse | Javaansere | Javaanste | |
| definite | Javaanse | Javaansere | Javaanste | |
| partitive | Javaans | Javaansers | — | |
Derived terms
Proper noun
Javaans n
- the Javanese language
- Het Javaans, de moedertaal van de meeste Indonesiërs, is nauw verwant met het Maleis.
- Javan, the birth language of most Indonesians, is closely related to Malay.