sceptisch
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German skeptisch, a learned borrowing of Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]sceptisch (comparative sceptischer, superlative meest sceptisch or sceptischt)
Usage notes
[edit]In Flanders, people tend to not pronounce the /k/ sound (under the influence of the French pronunciation of sceptique /sɛp.tik/).
Declension
[edit]| Declension of sceptisch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | sceptisch | |||
| inflected | sceptische | |||
| comparative | sceptischer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | sceptisch | sceptischer | het sceptischt het sceptischte | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | sceptische | sceptischere | sceptischte |
| n. sing. | sceptisch | sceptischer | sceptischte | |
| plural | sceptische | sceptischere | sceptischte | |
| definite | sceptische | sceptischere | sceptischte | |
| partitive | sceptisch | sceptischers | — | |