marien (not comparable)
Common in scientific contexts, such as mariene biologie (marine biology) and marien ecosysteem (marine ecosystem). In everyday expressions, however, this meaning is usually conveyed simply with a compound with the word zee (sea) in front, as in zeebodem (sea floor) and zeedier (marine animal).
Not to be confused with marine (navy).
| Declension of marien | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | marien | |||
| inflected | mariene | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | marien | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | mariene | ||
| n. sing. | marien | |||
| plural | mariene | |||
| definite | mariene | |||
| partitive | mariens | |||
Borrowed from Old French marier, from Latin marītāre.
marien
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.