Re: CHAT: Dutch dictionary recommendations?

 --- John Cowan skrzypszy:

> What are the different meanings, and which plural goes with which?
vader    -> vaders = fathers, in the sense of parents
         -> vaderen = (male) ancestors

Here are better examples:

hemel    -> hemelen (heaven)
         -> hemels (how do you call that thing that hangs
            above a bed or the throne?)
portier  -> portieren (door of a car)
         -> portiers (doorward)
wortel   -> wortels (root, both of a plant and in the meaning
            "back to the roots"
         -> wortelen (carrot)
been     -> benen (leg)
         -> beenderen (bone)
broeder  -> broeders (brother, sibling)
         -> broederen (member of the same religious community;
            oldfashioned)

Jan

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