Adjective: leeg
Indefinite Forms
| masc. & fem. | lege |
| neuter | leeg |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | lege |
| Comparative | legere |
| Superlative | leegste |
Sample Sentences
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Jesse Frederik, "Dode liberalen over 'het grote dikke ik', hebzucht en graaiers", Follow the Money, 2 June 2015. ("Everyone who thinks about the relations between humanity and material goods, will be struck by the fact that often he who works is poor, while he who leads an empty life wallows in abundance," Van der Linden observed.)
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De fles wijn was helaas leeg. (Unfortunately, the bottle of wine was empty.)
Adjectives inflected like leeg
leeg,
veeg,
Etymology
From older ledig, from Middle Dutch lēdich, from Old Dutch *lithig, from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz.
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