underbar (plural underbars)
underbar (third-person singular simple present underbars, present participle underbarring, simple past and past participle underbarred)
Calque of German wunderbar, equivalent to under + -bar. Compare Danish and Norwegian Bokmål underbar, Dutch wonderbaar, German wunderbar and Low German wunnerbor.
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underbar
Inflection of underbar | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | underbar | underbarare | underbarast |
Neuter singular | underbart | underbarare | underbarast |
Plural | underbara | underbarare | underbarast |
Masculine plural3 | underbare | underbarare | underbarast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | underbare | underbarare | underbaraste |
All | underbara | underbarare | underbaraste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |