fiets

Significado

Noun

1. (feminine) bicycle
2. (feminine) motorbike

Verb

1. (first-person,form-of,indicative,present,singular) inflection of fietsen:
2. (form-of,indicative,present,second-person,singular) inflection of fietsen:
3. (form-of,imperative) inflection of fietsen:

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fits/

Etimoloxía

Unknown. Various hypotheses exist:
* A corruption of French vélocipède, via an intermediate fieselepee or fietsepee.
* Named after bike seller E.C. Viets from Wageningen.
* From the dialectal verb vietsen (“to move quickly”).
* From German Vize as short for Vizepferd (literally “surrogate horse”).

Oracións

Als je met de fiets naar het werk gaat krijg je een fietsvergoeding.

If you go to work by bike, you will receive a bicycle allowance.