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middelbaar
middelbaar
Dutch
Adjective
middelbaar (not comparable)
Usage notes
- This term is used specifically to refer to secondary schooling. It commonly collocates with words such as onderwijs (secondary education) or simply school (secondary school). In combination with 'leeftijd;', however, it just means 'middle'. Van middelbare leeftijd: middle-aged.
Inflection
| Inflection of middelbaar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | middelbaar | |||
| inflected | middelbare | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | middelbaar | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | middelbare | ||
| n. sing. | middelbaar | |||
| plural | middelbare | |||
| definite | middelbare | |||
| partitive | — | |||