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Definition 2024
broos
broos
Dutch
Alternative forms
- bros (only used in the literal, physical sense)
Adjective
broos (comparative brozer, superlative meest broos or broost)
- (literally) brittle, crisp, physically fragile with a tendency to break into small pieces
- (figuratively) fragile, perishable, vulnerable, weak, e.g. said of short-lived beauty
Inflection
| Inflection of broos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | broos | |||
| inflected | broze | |||
| comparative | brozer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | broos | brozer | het broost het brooste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | broze | brozere | brooste |
| n. sing. | broos | brozer | brooste | |
| plural | broze | brozere | brooste | |
| definite | broze | brozere | brooste | |
| partitive | broos | brozers | — | |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
broos f (plural brozen, diminutive broosje n)
- (obsolete) cothurnus