belust
Dutch
Etymology
From be- + lust. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈlʏst/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: be‧lust
- Rhymes: -ʏst
Adjective
belust (not comparable)
- eager, desiring [with op ‘for, to’] [from 16th c.]
- Onverbiddelijk en genadeloos stapten de eenden nader, zeer belust op brood.
- Unrelenting and mercilessly the ducks stepped closer, deeply craving for bread.
Usage notes
- Instead of op, om can be used when the argument is an infinitive.
- In older texts the prepositions tot, naar or a complement genitive may be used in the same meaning as the preposition op that is used in modern language. These old usages are now obsolete.
Declension
| Declension of belust | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | belust | |||
| inflected | beluste | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | belust | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | beluste | ||
| n. sing. | belust | |||
| plural | beluste | |||
| definite | beluste | |||
| partitive | belusts | |||
Derived terms
Descendants
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch belust. Equivalent to be- + lust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈløst/
Adjective
belust
Inflection
| Inflection of belust | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | belust | |||
| inflected | beluste | |||
| comparative | beluster | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | belust | beluster | it belust it beluste | |
| indefinite | c. sing. | beluste | belustere | beluste |
| n. sing. | belust | beluster | beluste | |
| plural | beluste | belustere | beluste | |
| definite | beluste | belustere | beluste | |
| partitive | belusts | belusters | — | |
Further reading
- “belust”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011