gaar

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See also: går, GAAR, and gãar

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gaer (ready), from Old Dutch garo (ready), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (ready). More at yare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣaːr/
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  • Hyphenation: gaar
  • Rhymes: -aːr

Adjective

gaar (comparative gaarder, superlative gaarst)

  1. (of food, especially meat and vegetables) well-cooked; done; ready for consumption
  2. (figuratively, of a person) finished, exhausted
  3. (slang) annoying, bad

Inflection

Declension of gaar
uninflected gaar
inflected gare
comparative gaarder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial gaar gaarder het gaarst
het gaarste
indefinite m./f. sing. gare gaardere gaarste
n. sing. gaar gaarder gaarste
plural gare gaardere gaarste
definite gare gaardere gaarste
partitive gaars gaarders

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: gaar
  • Petjo: gaar
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: gar

Verb

gaar

  1. inflection of garen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Somali

Verb

gaar

  1. to reach