raak
See also: rääk
Dutch
    
    Etymology
    
From raken.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /raːk/
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- Hyphenation: raak
- Rhymes: -aːk
Adjective
    
raak (comparative raker, superlative raakst)
- hitting; to the point
- Dat was een rake opmerking. — “That remark was right on the mark.”
 
- on target; scoring; counting
- De bal lag net op de doellijn, dus kan het niet raak zijn geweest.- “The ball lay exactly on the goal line, so it can’t have been a goal.”
 
 
- (colloquial, used impersonally) pregnant
- Een kleine misselijkheid hoeft nog niet te zeggen dat het echt raak is.- “A little nausea doesn’t have to mean that you’re really pregnant.”
 
 
Inflection
    
| Inflection of raak | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | raak | |||
| inflected | rake | |||
| comparative | raker | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | raak | raker | het raakst het raakste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | rake | rakere | raakste | 
| n. sing. | raak | raker | raakste | |
| plural | rake | rakere | raakste | |
| definite | rake | rakere | raakste | |
| partitive | raaks | rakers | — | |
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