Noun: plein
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Het plein van ons dorp werd onlangs heraangelegd met nieuwe bloemenperken. (The square in our village was recently redone with new flowerbeds.)
Nouns inflected like plein
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
From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Its use for "square" is an innovation, replacing Middle Dutch plaetse in standard language (compare dialectal plaats). Compare English plain, plane, Portuguese chão, Spanish llano. See: Latin Nouns '
plānum', English Nouns '
plain', Portuguese Nouns '
chão', Spanish Nouns '
llano'.
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