amechtig
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch amechtich, from amacht (“powerlessness”) + -ich.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]amechtig (comparative amechtiger, superlative amechtigst)
- strongly panting, short of breath
- (figurative) forced, frantic
- 2024 October 11, Raoul du Pré, “Wilders' X-account is een sinkhole waarin de hele Nederlandse politiek dreigt te verdwijnen”, in Volkskrant[1], archived from the original on 11 October 2024:
- Kamerleden van VVD, NSC en BBB doen intussen amechtige pogingen om de rust terug te brengen met oproepen aan de oppositie: die moet het allemaal niet zo belangrijk maken.
- In the meantime, VVD, NSC, and BBB members of parliament are making frantic efforts to restore peace by appealing to the opposition: they shouldn't make it bigger than it is.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of amechtig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | amechtig | |||
| inflected | amechtige | |||
| comparative | amechtiger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | amechtig | amechtiger | het amechtigst het amechtigste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | amechtige | amechtigere | amechtigste |
| n. sing. | amechtig | amechtiger | amechtigste | |
| plural | amechtige | amechtigere | amechtigste | |
| definite | amechtige | amechtigere | amechtigste | |
| partitive | amechtigs | amechtigers | — | |
Adverb
[edit]amechtig
- in a forced, frantic way