Noun: neger
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Hij hoorde gezang, ozo vroom en devoot / Terwijl men voor hem alle deuren goed sloot. / Hij was maar 'n neger, zo'n zwarte (...) (He heard singing, so very pious and devout / While people closed all doors shut for him. / He was only a negro, one of those blacks (...)) [1965, “Hij was maar een neger”, performed by Zangeres Zonder Naam:]
Nouns inflected like neger
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”). Doublet of nikker. See: French Nouns '
nègre', Spanish Nouns '
negro', Latin Nouns '
niger'.
Verbs referencing "neger"
English Nouns
nigger, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
neger.
Translations