Noun: canapé
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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't Water steeg en bleef maar stijgen / en de hele kanapee / ging toen langzaam aan het drijven / en de tantes dreven mee. (The water rose and kept rising / and the entire canapé / slowly went afloat / and the aunts floated along with it.) [1966 [1951], Annie M.G. Schmidt, “Tante Trui en Tante Toosje [Aunt Trui and Aunt Toosje]”, in De spin Sebastiaan [Sebastian the Spider], Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, page 57:]
Nouns inflected like canapé
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century. See: French Nouns '
canapé'.
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