staalhard
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of staal (“steel”) + hard (“hard, solid”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]staalhard (not comparable)
- physically hard and strong as steel
- (figuratively) ironclad, rock solid, irrefutable
- emphatical
Declension
[edit]| Declension of staalhard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | staalhard | |||
| inflected | staalharde | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | staalhard | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | staalharde | ||
| n. sing. | staalhard | |||
| plural | staalharde | |||
| definite | staalharde | |||
| partitive | staalhards | |||
Adverb
[edit]staalhard
- physically hard and strong as steel
- solidly, irrefutably
- emphatically