Noun: hitte
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Ze konden niet langer werken door de hitte. (They couldn't work any longer because of the heat.)
Nouns inflected like hitte
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hitte, from Old Dutch *hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hitjō; see *haitį̄. Cognate with German Hitze and Yiddish היץ (hits). Now commonly interpreted as heet (“hot”) + -te (“ness”). Also related with English heat. See: German Nouns '
Hitze', English Nouns '
heat'.
Verbs referencing "hitte"
English Nouns
heat, German Nouns
Hitze.
Translations