"flink" meaning in Dutch

See flink in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /flɪŋk/ Audio: Nl-flink.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪŋk Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Low German flink (“quick, gleaming”). Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter, beat repeatedly”). Compare also Middle Dutch vlinken (verb). Etymology templates: {{bor+|nl|gml|flink||quick, gleaming}} Borrowed from Middle Low German flink (“quick, gleaming”), {{der|nl|gem-pro|*flakurōną|t=to flutter, beat repeatedly}} Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter, beat repeatedly”), {{cog|dum|vlinken|pos=verb}} Middle Dutch vlinken (verb) Head templates: {{nl-adj}} flink (comparative flinker, superlative flinkst) Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-adj}} Forms: flinker [comparative], flinkst [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], flink [adverbial, positive, predicative], flinker [adverbial, comparative, predicative], het flinkst [adverbial, predicative, superlative], het flinkste [adverbial, predicative, superlative], flinke [feminine, indefinite, masculine, positive, singular], flinkere [comparative, feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular], flinkste [feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular, superlative], flink [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], flinker [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], flinkste [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], flinke [indefinite, plural, positive], flinkere [comparative, indefinite, plural], flinkste [indefinite, plural, superlative], flinke [definite, positive], flinkere [comparative, definite], flinkste [definite, superlative], flinks [partitive, positive], flinkers [comparative, partitive], - [partitive, superlative]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flinkerd, flinkheid, flinks

Adverb

IPA: /flɪŋk/ Audio: Nl-flink.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪŋk Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Low German flink (“quick, gleaming”). Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter, beat repeatedly”). Compare also Middle Dutch vlinken (verb). Etymology templates: {{bor+|nl|gml|flink||quick, gleaming}} Borrowed from Middle Low German flink (“quick, gleaming”), {{der|nl|gem-pro|*flakurōną|t=to flutter, beat repeatedly}} Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter, beat repeatedly”), {{cog|dum|vlinken|pos=verb}} Middle Dutch vlinken (verb) Head templates: {{nl-adv}} flink

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
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  "word": "flink"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.