"flauw" meaning in Dutch

See flauw in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: Nl-flauw.ogg
Etymology: Possibly through Middle Dutch vlau (“limp, weak”) from Old French flou; see further at French flou. If so, a doublet of Dutch flou. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|vlau||limp, weak}} Middle Dutch vlau (“limp, weak”), {{der|nl|fro|flou}} Old French flou, {{m+|fr|flou}} French flou, {{m+|nl|flou}} Dutch flou Head templates: {{nl-adj}} flauw (comparative flauwer, superlative flauwst) Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-adj}} Forms: flauwer [comparative], flauwst [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], flauw [adverbial, positive, predicative], flauwer [adverbial, comparative, predicative], het flauwst [adverbial, predicative, superlative], het flauwste [adverbial, predicative, superlative], flauwe [feminine, indefinite, masculine, positive, singular], flauwere [comparative, feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular], flauwste [feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular, superlative], flauw [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], flauwer [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], flauwste [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], flauwe [indefinite, plural, positive], flauwere [comparative, indefinite, plural], flauwste [indefinite, plural, superlative], flauwe [definite, positive], flauwere [comparative, definite], flauwste [definite, superlative], flauws [partitive, positive], flauwers [comparative, partitive], - [partitive, superlative]
  1. boring, tasteless, uninspired Categories (topical): Taste
    Sense id: en-flauw-nl-adj-Tfl6FoGG Disambiguation of Taste: 33 10 18 38 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 10 38 11 41
  2. languid, weak Categories (topical): Taste
    Sense id: en-flauw-nl-adj-aIe-KV3k Disambiguation of Taste: 33 10 18 38 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 10 38 11 41
  3. (concept) vague, hazy Categories (topical): Taste
    Sense id: en-flauw-nl-adj-u1SxpHye Disambiguation of Taste: 33 10 18 38 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 10 38 11 41
  4. (flavour) tasteless, bland Categories (topical): Taste
    Sense id: en-flauw-nl-adj-aPNc7dEW Disambiguation of Taste: 33 10 18 38 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 10 38 11 41 Disambiguation of Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 23 25 31

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Nl-flauw.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nicoline van der Sijs"
  ],
  "word": "flauw"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.