From Middle Dutch *prettig (attested only in form pertich (“smart, cunning, swift, lively, pert”) > Dutch pertig (“ill-tempered, disturbed, quirky”), West Flemish pertig (“cute, nice, pretty, graceful”)), from Old Dutch *prettig, *prattig, from Proto-West Germanic *prattīg, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, cunning, tricky”), equivalent to pret + -ig. Doublet of pertig. Cognate with English pretty.
prettig (comparative prettiger, superlative prettigst)
| Declension of prettig | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | prettig | |||
| inflected | prettige | |||
| comparative | prettiger | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | prettig | prettiger | het prettigst het prettigste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | prettige | prettigere | prettigste |
| n. sing. | prettig | prettiger | prettigste | |
| plural | prettige | prettigere | prettigste | |
| definite | prettige | prettigere | prettigste | |
| partitive | prettigs | prettigers | — | |