lân

Meaning

1. land
2. country

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɔːn/

Etymology

From Old Frisian land, lond, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Sentences

Dit wetter dat hjir foar ús leit, hat lân west.

This water that lies here before us has been land.

Sina is it grutste lân yn Azië.

China is the largest country in Asia.

It wurdt oan de kust wynkrêft njoggen en it lân yn wynkrêft acht .

It will be wind force nine on the coast and wind force eight inland.

Sawat tachtich prosint fan it lân is bergen .

About eighty percent of the country is mountains.

As wy neat dogge , dan skoot de kustline de kant nei it lân op .

If we do nothing, the coastline will move inland.

Hoe krije wy de hûnderttûzenen net-aktiven yn ús lân wer oan it wurk ?

How do we get the hundreds of thousands of non-active people in our country back to work?

It lân is gund oan de heechste bieder.

The land is awarded to the highest bidder.

Hjerstmis bûgden hja harren op it lân en dolden hja ierappels .

In autumn, they bent over the land and dug potatoes.