-atief
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]As a suffix formed by analogy with other Dutch words ending in -atief, which are almost never actually formed using this suffix (see Usage notes) (such as demonstratief, informatief, etc.). Those words tend to either be borrowed from French (see -atif) and/or Latin (in which -ativus is a common ending which is not in fact a suffix proper), or they were formed by adding the suffix -ief in Dutch to a base word ending in -atie.
Suffix
[edit]-atief
- -ative (adjectival suffix)
Usage notes
[edit]- Very rarely actually a productive suffix in Dutch in and of itself (see Derived terms); most words that superficially contain it are actually either direct borrowings from Latin or French, or are built with the suffix -ief from words ending in -atie. Thus, for example, demonstratief, lucratief, negatief and informatief are all not formed using -atief, though they superficially contain it.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of -atief | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | -atief | |||
| inflected | -atieve | |||
| comparative | -atiever | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | -atief | -atiever | het -atiefst het -atiefste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | -atieve | -atievere | -atiefste |
| n. sing. | -atief | -atiever | -atiefste | |
| plural | -atieve | -atievere | -atiefste | |
| definite | -atieve | -atievere | -atiefste | |
| partitive | -atiefs | -atievers | — | |