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baarheid

Baarheid is a Dutch noun that denotes the state or quality associated with the root concept expressed by an adjective ending in -baar, such as feasible, payable, or deliverable. In practice, baarheid is not a common everyday term; it appears mainly in linguistic or theoretical discussions about Dutch morphology, where -baar is an adjectival suffix meaning “able to be” and -heid is a noun-forming suffix that yields abstract nouns.

In linguistic usage, baarheid describes the general property described by an -baar adjective. The most familiar

In standard language, more precise terms are typically preferred for everyday communication. Nevertheless, baarheid can be

See also: haalbaarheid, betaalbaarheid, leverbaarheid, zichtbaarheid.

related
nouns
are
formed
through
the
pattern
-baar
+
-heid,
yielding
words
like
haalbaarheid
(feasibility)
and
betaalbaarheid
(affordability).
These
examples
illustrate
how
the
concept
of
baarheid
is
used
to
discuss
the
capacity,
permissibility,
or
applicability
of
a
given
state
in
a
precise,
domain-specific
way.
a
useful
meta-term
in
grammar
or
lexicon
discussions,
helping
to
categorize
and
compare
how
different
Dutch
adjectives
derive
corresponding
abstract
nouns.