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Triest
triest
triest
See also: Triest
English
Verb
triest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of try
- Bible, Psalms
- If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.
- Bible, Psalms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
Ultimately borrowed from Latin tristis; compare French triste.
Adjective
triest (comparative triester, superlative meest triest or triestst)
Inflection
| Inflection of triest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | triest | |||
| inflected | trieste | |||
| comparative | triester | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | triest | triester | het triestst het triestste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | trieste | triestere | triestste |
| n. sing. | triest | triester | triestste | |
| plural | trieste | triestere | triestste | |
| definite | trieste | triestere | triestste | |
| partitive | triests | triesters | — | |