Noun: duit
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Zij kon daarmee een aardige duit verdienen. (She could make a pretty penny from that.)
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"Blijf met je gore klauwen van me duiten af", krijste de vrek. ("Keep your filthy mitts of me moola," the miser shrieked.)
Nouns inflected like duit
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 duit, of uncertain origin. Possibly borrowed from Old Norse þveit (“cut-off piece of metal, small coin, doit”), related to Old English þwītan (“to cut, cutt off”) (whence dialectal English thwite). See: Old Norse Nouns '
þveit', Old English Nouns '
þwītan'.
Verbs referencing "duit"
German Nouns
Deut.
Translations