Adjective: paars
Indefinite Forms
| masc. & fem. | paarse |
| neuter | paars |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | paarse |
| Comparative | paarsere |
| Superlative | paarste |
Sample Sentences
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Ze heeft een paarse blouse in haar kast hangen. (She has a purple blouse hanging in her closet.)
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Lavendelbloemen zijn meestal paars. (Lavender flowers are usually purple.)
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De lucht kleurde paars tijdens de zonsondergang. (The sky turned purple during the sunset.)
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Edam gedraagt zich zo, omdat hij denkt dat hij onaantastbaar is vanwege zijn paars zijn. (Mr Edam behaves this way because he thinks he is untouchable because of his being a National Democratic Party loyalist.) [2020 February 8, Naomi Hoever, “Specialist aangeklaagd na opmerking over politieke kleur [Medical specialist charged after remark on political affiliation]”, in De Ware Tijd, retrieved 10 Jun 2021:]
Adjectives inflected like paars
snaaks,
schots,
Mandarijns,
kettersch,
slinks,
slaafs,
sleets,
academisch,
fascistisch,
Duitsch,
oudersch,
aristocratisch,
socialisties,
Baskisch,
Tanzaniaans,
empirisch,
onethisch,
melodisch,
kosmopolitisch,
Helleens, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch paers, peers, pers (“purple”), from Middle French pers (“blue-grey, dark violet”), from Medieval Latin persus, persum (“dark blue”). Possibly derived from either Latin Persae (“Persians”), Persia (“Persia”), referring to the colour of a garment, or from Late Latin persica (“peach”), referring to the colour of peach blossom.
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