Dutch -baar for English -able

Suffix -baar (“-able”)  is used to derive adjectives from the transitive verbs:

drinkbaar – drinkable (verb: drinken)
haalbaar – feasible, doable (verb: halen – to pull, to drag)
afbreekbaar – decomposable (verb: afbreken – to decompose)
denkbaar  – imaginable (“thinkable”) (verb: denken)
blijkbaar – 1. evident, obvious 2. apparently, obviously (verb: blijken – to prove, to turn out)

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