hoog – Dutch adjective declension

Adjective: hoog

Indefinite Forms

masc. & fem.	hoge
neuter	hoog

Comparison Forms

Positive	hoge
Comparative	hogere
Superlative	hoogste

Sample Sentences

De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. (The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.)
Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. (Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.)

Adjectives inflected like hoog

droog, hoog,

Etymology

1. From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz. Doublet of high.
2. Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj. See: German Adjectives 'hoch', English Adjectives 'high'.

Verbs referencing "hoog"

English Adjectives high, German Adjectives hoch, Gothic Adjectives 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃.