zuiver
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzœy̯vər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: zui‧ver
- Rhymes: -œy̯vər
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch suver, from Old Dutch *sūvar, from Latin sōbrius. Doublet of sober.
Adjective
zuiver (comparative zuiverder, superlative zuiverst)
- pure
- clean, tidy
- net (i.e. after expenses and taxes, when talking about profit, as in zuivere winst)
- guiltless, clean (e.g. conscience)
- (music) in tune
- Antonym: vals
- (statistics) unbiased
Declension
| Declension of zuiver | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | zuiver | |||
| inflected | zuivere | |||
| comparative | zuiverder | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | zuiver | zuiverder | het zuiverst het zuiverste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | zuivere | zuiverdere | zuiverste |
| n. sing. | zuiver | zuiverder | zuiverste | |
| plural | zuivere | zuiverdere | zuiverste | |
| definite | zuivere | zuiverdere | zuiverste | |
| partitive | zuivers | zuiverders | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: suiwer
- → Aukan: soifili
- → Sranan Tongo: soifri
- → Saramaccan: sóífí
Interjection
zuiver
- (Suriname, colloquial) that's right, correct, exactly, agreed
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
zuiver
- inflection of zuiveren:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative