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Due to the similarity of the words one might think that moin derives from various regional pronunciations of (Guten) Morgen ("good morning"), which tend to alter, vocalise, or skip rg. However, the word may actually also derive from the Dutch, Frisian, and Low German word mo(o)i, meaning "beautiful" or "good".
RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 2018-10-26; References This page was last edited on 23 September 2024, at 11:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Gerbrandy had looked up the English translation of goedendag, which in Dutch is often used as a formal greeting, yet "good day" is most often used as valediction in Britain (as opposed to "good morning" or "good afternoon"). Dutch actueel means "current" (whereas actual in English means "precise" or "genuine"). A Dutch person unfamiliar with ...
The word is productive in Dutch: a standard variation is "fucken met" ("to fuck with"). hoer: Hoer is the Dutch word for whore. Also used in Afrikaans. hoerenpiemel: Hoerenpiemel (literally: "whore's penis") is a Dutch swearword mostly used in the south (in the Netherlands "under the rivers"), the province where it's the most used is in ...
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
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"Hello, Good Morning" is a 1980 hit single by the Dutch singer Nick Mackenzie (stage name of Nick van den Broeke), written by Henk Van Broekhoven. [1] The song was also recorded by Van Broekhoven under his own stage name John Spencer in 1996. Mackenzie's original record reached No.20 in the Dutch charts, while Van Broekhoven as John Spencer's ...
Dutch linguists use the term Oost-Limburgs (East Limburgish) for the form of Limburgish spoken in an area from Belgian Voeren south of Maastricht in the Netherlands to the German border. For them, West-Limburgs ( West Limburgish ) is the variety of Limburgish spoken in Belgium in the area east of the Uerdingen line, for example in and around ...