Noun: glas
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Vensters zijn gemaakt van glas. (Windows are made of glass.)
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Staan er al glazen op tafel? (Are there glasses on the table yet?)
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Drink even een glas water. (Drink a glass of water.)
Nouns inflected like glas
godsbewijs,
sjmoes,
borrelglas,
provinciehuis,
vleermuis,
bootreis,
boothuis,
kleine barmsijs,
boelhuis,
schapenvlies,
bosmuis,
schildluis,
bejaardentehuis,
grachtenhuis,
maskergors,
kleine rietgans,
badhuis,
uurglas,
bakhuis,
schijthuis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch glas, from Old Dutch glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Compare Low German Glas, German Glas, English glass, West Frisian glês, Icelandic gler. See: German Nouns '
Glas', English Nouns '
glass', Icelandic Nouns '
gler'.
Verbs referencing "glas"
German Nouns
Glas.
Translations