koele

Koele is an inflected form of the Dutch adjective koel, meaning cool or cold. It is used in attributive position before nouns to describe temperature or a sense of coolness, and it commonly occurs in standard Dutch in contexts such as weather, atmosphere, or physical states. For example, de koele nacht describes a cool night, and de koele wind describes a cool wind. In comparative and superlative forms, the base adjective is combined with appropriate endings, yielding koeler (cooler) and koelste (coolest).

Etymology and cognates

Koel comes from the Germanic language family and has cognates in related languages, such as German kühl and English cool. The inflected form koele reflects Dutch adjective inflection patterns used before nouns in certain grammatical contexts.

Usage notes

Koele is generally found in written and spoken Dutch when describing something with a cool or cold characteristic in a neutral, descriptive sense. The word can appear in meteorological descriptions, indoor climate discussions, or any situation where plain temperature is being conveyed. Like other adjectives, its form adapts to grammatical context, but koele is the standard attributive form used before nouns in common phrases such as de koele lucht or de koele nacht.

Related terms

Koel is the base form; koeler and koelste form the comparative and superlative. Related concepts include koelheid (coolness) and koelte (coolness or cool air, depending on context).

See also

Koel; koelheid; koeltemperatuur.