onderhavig

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch onderhavich, by-form of onderhevich (modern onderhevig); this form with -a- had become obsolete in early modern Dutch. In its current meaning the word was revived sometime in the nineteenth century and derived, by semantic loan, from the past participle of German unterhaben. Doublet of onderhevig.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

onderhavig (not comparable)

  1. (formal) current, in question
    Synonyms: huidig, in kwestie
    Het onderhavige geval weerspreekt deze aanname.The case in question contradicts this assumption.

Declension

Declension of onderhavig
uninflected onderhavig
inflected onderhavige
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial onderhavig
indefinite m./f. sing. onderhavige
n. sing. onderhavig
plural onderhavige
definite onderhavige
partitive onderhavigs