Noun: schijn
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Ze dacht in de verte kunstlicht te zien, maar het was slechts schijn. (She thought that she saw artificial light in the distance, but it merely seemed that way.)
Nouns inflected like schijn
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 schijn, from Old Dutch *skīn, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaz. Cognate with German Schein, English shine. See: German Nouns '
Schein', English Nouns '
shine'.
Verbs referencing "schijn"
German Nouns
Schein.
Translations