vies
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪz
Verb
vies
- third-person singular simple present indicative of vie
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
vies
- plural of via
Dutch
Etymology
From earlier vijs, of uncertain origin. Cognate with German fies.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -is
- IPA(key): /vis/
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Adjective
vies (comparative viezer, superlative meest vies or viest)
- dirty (not clean)
- Synonym: smerig
- Al die vieze potten en pannen hier, bah! ― All those dirty pots and pans here, bleh!
- (figurative) dirty, also in a sexual sense
- Synonym: vuil
- Wat een vieze kerel! ― What a dirty guy!
- bad-tasting, disgusting
- Synonym: onsmakelijk
- Dit is een vies gerecht! ― This dish tastes bad!
- (predicative, with van) disgusted by, not liking or shunning something
- Ik ben vies van kaas. ― I don't like cheese.
Declension
| Declension of vies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | vies | |||
| inflected | vieze | |||
| comparative | viezer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | vies | viezer | het viest het vieste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | vieze | viezere | vieste |
| n. sing. | vies | viezer | vieste | |
| plural | vieze | viezere | vieste | |
| definite | vieze | viezere | vieste | |
| partitive | vies | viezers | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Franco-Provençal
Noun
vies
- plural of via
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi/
Noun
vies f
- plural of vie
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwi.eːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.es]
Verb
viēs
- second-person singular present active indicative of vieō