precies

See also: preciés

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French precis, from Latin precisus, from praecīsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prəˈsis/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pre‧cies
  • Rhymes: -is

Adjective

precies (comparative preciezer, superlative meest precies or preciest)

  1. exact, precise
  2. accurate, careful

Declension

Declension of precies
uninflected precies
inflected precieze
comparative preciezer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial precies preciezer het preciest
het precieste
indefinite m./f. sing. precieze preciezere precieste
n. sing. precies preciezer precieste
plural precieze preciezere precieste
definite precieze preciezere precieste
partitive precies preciezers —

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: presies
  • Petjo: persies, presies
  • → Indonesian: persis
  • → Kwinti: precies
  • → Papiamentu: presis, precies

Adverb

precies

  1. exactly, precisely
  2. (Belgium) seemingly
    Synonyms: net alsof, blijkbaar, schijnbaar
    't Is hier precies een feest - de Lotto gewonnen of zo?
    There seems to be a party here - did someone win the lottery or something?

Alternative forms

  • (Brabantian) percies, persies
  • (text messaging) prc

Descendants

References

Spanish

Verb

precies

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of preciar
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