Dutch
- noun
- /dʌtʃ/
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neerlandés
- Many students in the Netherlands learn Dutch as their first language.
I want to talk about the books that I own in Dutch.
- I want to talk about the books that I own in Dutch.
- And I'm like, I don't speak Dutch.
- Hoff is the same word in Dutch, in German as court.
- She speaks Papaminto, but she speaks Dutch, she speaks English, she speaks French, she speaks sort of language.
- And then she went to the Netherlands, to Holland, where she learned Dutch and became elected a member of parliament in Holland.
- You speak what's called patois, pigeon, English, a combination of Dutch, French, English, Creole, Portuguese, all kind of mishmashed together.
- You speak at what's called patois, pigeon, English, a combination of Dutch, French, English, Creole, Portuguese, all kind of mishmash together.
Examples
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They called themselves Afrikaners and spoke their own dialect of Dutch, known as Afrikans, but they were often simply known as Boers, the Dutch word for farmer.
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Now he is a charismatic figure, fluent in Dutch, Indonesian, Sundanese, Balanese, Japanese, Arabic, German, French and English.
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These operation names are derived from the Dutch words for test and increase.
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But how did that get into the Dutch translation?
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So let's do the Dutch word for bone, bolt.
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Hoff is the same word in Dutch, in German as court.
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So today's Dutch word of the day is for snowball.
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And then the Dutch, the Dutch came up with this idea of Easter bunnies laying eggs as a game for little children.
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He he called it ongeret, which is the the Dutch word for virginal and pure and untouched.
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The Dutch language has many similarities with German and English.
Synonyms
A language spoken in the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, and Suriname
Idioms
Compounds
1
9.6
A form of German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland, often by Amish families
- Specialized
1
4.5
A sickness of elm trees caused by a fungus that makes leaves wilt and trees die
- Archaic
An old American term for people with mixed African, Native American, and European family background
A tropical bean plant with red flowers that grows black beans with white spots you can eat
A low plant with three small leaves and white flowers that spreads across the ground
- Specialized
Cocoa powder treated with a chemical to reduce acidity, give a milder taste, and make it darker
- Literature
Former name for the country now called Suriname in northeastern South America when it was controlled by the Netherlands
A spring flower with blue or purple petals people grow in gardens and use in bouquets
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dutch comes from an old German word theudisk meaning 'of the people', the same root as German Deutsch. So Dutch names the language spoken in the Netherlands.