wakker
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wacker, from Old Dutch *wakkar, from Proto-West Germanic *wakr. Cognate with German wacker (“stalwart”), dialectal English waker (“vigilant”, see there).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑkər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: wak‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɑkər
Adjective
wakker (comparative wakkerder, superlative wakkerst)
Declension
| Declension of wakker | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | wakker | |||
| inflected | wakkere | |||
| comparative | wakkerder | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | wakker | wakkerder | het wakkerst het wakkerste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | wakkere | wakkerdere | wakkerste |
| n. sing. | wakker | wakkerder | wakkerste | |
| plural | wakkere | wakkerdere | wakkerste | |
| definite | wakkere | wakkerdere | wakkerste | |
| partitive | wakkers | wakkerders | — | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Middle English
Adjective
wakker
- comparative degree of woke