ambtenaar
Meaning
civil servant
Concepts
official
civil servant
officer
functionary
white-collar worker
government employee
government official
incumbent
white-collar
civil service
administrator
bureaucrat
public worker
Frequency
Hyphenated as
amb‧te‧naar
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɑm(p).təˌnaːr/
Etymology
From a combination of ambt + -en- + -aar, compare West Frisian amtner.
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