onaangenaams

Onaangenaams is a Dutch term that denotes something unpleasant or disagreeable. In standard modern Dutch the common form for describing a singular subject is onaangenaam; onaangenaams appears mainly in older texts, regional dialects, or in linguistic discussions about grammar rather than in everyday usage. The word derives from on- (a negating prefix) + aangenaam (pleasant), literally meaning not pleasant.

In usage, onaangenaams is not a routine form in contemporary language. When it does appear, it is typically within historical documents or dialectal speech where adjectives take inflected endings to agree with plural or certain noun classes. In scholarly contexts, onaangenaams can be cited as an illustrative example of Dutch adjective inflection patterns rather than as a commonly used lexical item.

Grammatical notes: as a descriptive adjective, it would modify plural nouns in older or dialectal Dutch, or appear in fixed, archaic phrases. In modern standard Dutch, speakers would more likely rephrase with onaangenaam or describe the unpleasantness using a noun such as onaangenaamheid or onplezier.

See also: onaangenaam, Dutch grammar, adjectives, dialects of Dutch.