Agreement on adjectives is absent in a number of cases (in addition to the cases mentioned earlier, involving specific quantifiers):

1. The adjective ends in a schwa, as in oranjeorange, ferealein love, enamoured.

   This also includes past participles of je-verbs which are used as adjectives. Such verbs form their past participles in schwa, such as achtedear (in letters) from achtsjevalue, tekenjedraw: achte bestjoerdear board, in moai tekene hûsa beautifully drawn house.

2. The adjective is a loan word such as kakikhaki, aluminiumaluminium, primafine.
3. The adjective is a geographical adjective in -er:
   Example 1

   
   

   a.	De Ljouwert-er plysje
   	the Leeuwarden.GEO police
   	The police of the city of Leeuwarden

   b.	*De Ljouwert-er-e plysje
   	the Leeuwarden.GEO.CG police
   	The police of the city Leeuwarden

   c.	Dimter koeke
   	Dimter pie
   	Gingerbread from Deventer

   d.	*Dimt.er-e koeke
   	Dimter.GEO.CG pie
   	Gingerbread from Deventer

4. Comparative -er (allomorph -der) follows an unaccented syllable, so that the presence of agreement leads to three unaccented syllables with a schwa:
   Example 2

   
   

   a.	In ûnbetrouber-der fint
   	an unreliable.CPR man
   	An unreliable man

   b.	*In ûnbetrouber-der-e fint
   	an unreliable.CPR.CG man
   	An unreliable man

   After an accented syllable, -er must bear agreement:
   Example 3

   
   

   a.	De wat grutter-e doarpen
   	the somewhat bigger.PL villages
   	The slightly bigger villages

   b.	*De wat grutter doarpen
   	the somewhat bigger villages
   	The slightly bigger villages

5. The adjective forms an idiom with the following noun. The noun has two characteristic properties in this construction:
   • it is a common noun
   • it denotes a person

   This group is quite productive. The phrase as a whole denotes functions of persons. The adjective exhibits both failure of number agreement and failure of gender agreement, as it is without schwa both in the common gender and in the plural:

   Example 4

   
   

   a.	De sosjaal wurker
   	The social wurker

   b.	De sosjaal wurkers
   	The social workers

   c.	De saaklik direkteur
   	The business director

   d.	De saaklik direkteuren
   	The business directors

   If the agreement is present, the phrase loses its meaning specialisation, and receives its literal interpretation. These cases do not have the stress pattern of compounds, that is, there is no primary stress on the adjective (as in langslieperlong sleeper) but it is on the noun, as in agreement constructions.

6. The adjective forms an idiom with the following noun. The noun has two characteristic properties in this construction:
   • it is a neuter noun
   • it denotes a non-person

   This group is quite productive. It differs from its common counterpart in that the adjective may bear inflection in the plural. so some members belonging to this group exhibit failure of gender agreement but not of number agreement. However, other members of this group fail to show up in the plural with their idiomatic interpretation:

   Example 5

   
   

   a.	It koart pleit
   	the short suit
   	The law suit

   b.	De koarte pleiten
   	the short suits
   	The law suit

   c.	It hillich fjoer
   	the holy fire
   	The holy fire

   d.	De hillige fjurren
   	the holy fire
   	The holy fire

   So it hillich fjoer denotes ambitious ensoiasm, but its plural just means holy fires.

7. Some lexical cases: the adjectives lofterleft and rjochterright.