Noun: massa
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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De massa van het object is 2 kilogram. (The mass of the object is 2 kilograms.)
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Er was een grote massa mensen aanwezig bij het concert. (There was a large mass of people present at the concert.)
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Was er veel volk? — Massa's! (Were there a lot of people? — Masses!)
Nouns inflected like massa
safari,
samosa,
salami,
sialia,
sherry,
sherpa,
skorro,
vluchtauto,
actiefoto,
pachinko,
blauwgrijze ara,
commando,
babiroesa,
begonia,
beloega,
hotellobby,
basisgrammatica,
roodwangara,
retorica,
yogini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch masse, from Old French masse, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza). The Latin spelling was adopted in the seventeenth century. See: Latin Nouns '
massa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μᾶζα'.
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