Noun: zaak
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Het is voor de gemeente ook een lastige zaak. (It's also a cumbersome matter for the municipality.)
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Wat je in je prive leven doet is je zaak. (What you do in your private life is your business.)
Nouns inflected like zaak
fraudezaak,
stevenhaak,
toespraak,
vraagbaak,
aanspraak,
broodjeszaak,
bijzaak,
vuurbaak,
vrijspraak,
belastingafspraak,
huistaak,
platenzaak,
onderkaak,
nasmaak,
winkelhaak,
kledingzaak,
hoofdzaak,
blaaskaak,
uitbraak,
bonenstaak, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch sāke, from Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.
2. Cognate with English sake, West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Yiddish זאַך (zakh), Danish sag, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”). See: English Nouns '
sake', German Nouns '
Sache', Danish Nouns '
sag', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉'.
Verbs referencing "zaak"
English Nouns
sake, Danish Nouns
sag, German Nouns
Sache, Icelandic Nouns
sök, Old English Nouns
sacu, Swedish Nouns
sak.
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