Noun: buurt
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Tivoli is een buurt in Eindhoven. (Tivoli is a neighbourhood in Eindhoven.)
Nouns inflected like buurt
motiveering,
Duitse herdershond,
urilift,
vervolmaking,
elektrische spanning,
ovenfriet,
winteravond,
weervrouw,
besteding,
bloemenveiling,
vertakking,
tintinofiel,
synaps,
olieraffinaderij,
vliegtuigkaping,
sawaslang,
verzetting,
afrondfout,
druivenoogst,
wintermaand, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch buurt (“district”) (also buyrte) [15th century], from ghebuerte (“surroundings”) [c. 1290] and gebuerde (“zone”) [c. 1240], related to Old High German giburida and German Börde. Akin to West Frisian buert. See also
2. gebied and Belgian Dutch synonym gebuurte. See: German Nouns '
Börde'.
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