onzin – Dutch noun declension

Noun: onzin
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like onzin

groepsimmuniteit, wintergroen, nixtamalisatie, homocultuur, onbesprokenheid, sesaté, sepsis, sterfelijkheid, seleen, stoomkracht, beeldhouwkunst, clitoridectomie, kontlikkerij, concurrentie, sardis, satijn, militaria, santen, staatsterreur, classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle Dutch onsin (“absurd”), a calque of French non-sens (“nonsense”), equivalent to on- (“un-, not”) + zin (“sense”).
2. Compare English nonsense, German Unsinn (“nonsense”). See: French Nouns 'non-sens', English Nouns 'nonsense', German Nouns 'Unsinn'.

Verbs referencing "onzin"

English Nouns nonsense.

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