volledige

Volledige is the inflected form of the Dutch adjective volledig, meaning complete or whole. It is used to describe something as having all parts or elements, or as a total amount. The word can function before a noun to indicate fullness, or serve in a predicate position after a linking verb.

Grammatical usage and forms: The ending -e appears when the noun is preceded by a definite article (de/het), a demonstrative, a possessive determiner, or when the noun is plural. For example: de volledige lijst (the complete list), het volledige jaar (the complete year), mijn volledige naam (my full name), een volledig verslag (a complete report). When the sentence uses the indefinite article een, the attributive adjective is usually in its base form: een volledig dossier. In predicative position, the adjective typically remains uninflected: Het jaar is volledig.

Adverbial and related forms: Volledig can also function as an adverb, meaning completely, in which case it does not take the -e ending: Het project is volledig afgerond. The noun form volledigheid means completeness or totality, used to discuss the state of being complete rather than a specific object.

Usage notes: Volledig is common in both formal and informal Dutch and is widely used in everyday descriptions as well as in technical, academic, and administrative language. It is a versatile term often preferred over synonyms when a sense of total completeness is required.