Noun: zwaluw
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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In de lente en zomer zie je vaak zwermen zwaluwen die door de lucht vliegen. (In spring and summer, you often see flocks of swallows flying through the air.)
Nouns inflected like zwaluw
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 Dutch swaluwe, from Old Dutch *swalwa, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, English swallow, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala. Doublet of schwalbe. See: English Nouns '
swallow', German Nouns '
Schwalbe', Swedish Nouns '
svala'.
Verbs referencing "zwaluw"
German Nouns
Schwalbe.
Translations