kwijt
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch quite, from Medieval Latin quitus (“discharged, released (from debt)”), a byform of Classical Latin quiētus (“quiet”). Compare Low German quit, quiet, German quitt, Danish kvit, Swedish kvitt, Icelandic kvittur. More at quit, quite.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛi̯t
Adjective
kwijt (not comparable)
- rid (having lost something)
- Ik ben blij dat ik die zorgen kwijt ben.
- I'm happy to be rid of those worries.
- gone, lost, missing
- Zijn broodwinning is kwijt.
- His livelihood is lost.
Declension
This adjective is only rarely used attributively.
| Declension of kwijt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | kwijt | |||
| inflected | kwijte | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | kwijt | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | kwijte | ||
| n. sing. | kwijt | |||
| plural | kwijte | |||
| definite | kwijte | |||
| partitive | kwijts | |||
Synonyms
Verb
kwijt
- inflection of kwijten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative