zwaluw – Dutch noun declension

Dutch noun forms of zwaluw

Noun: zwaluw
Gender: Feminine Hyphenation:
Sg.zwaluw
Pl.zwaluwen

Sample Sentences

  • In de lente en zomer zie je vaak zwermen zwaluwen die door de lucht vliegen. (In spring and summer, you often see flocks of swallows flying through the air.)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch swaluwe, from Old Dutch *swalwa, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, English swallow, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala. Doublet of schwalbe. See: English Nouns 'swallow', German Nouns 'Schwalbe', Swedish Nouns 'svala'.

Verbs referencing "zwaluw"

German Nouns Schwalbe.

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