dialect – Dutch noun declension

Noun: dialect
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Sg.	dialect
Pl.	dialecten

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like dialect

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 Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”). See: Latin Nouns 'dialectos', Ancient Greek Nouns 'διάλεκτος'.

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