Masculine

onzin

Sentences
An user
Dat   dit   onzin   is   blijkt   uit   ons
ons
  stemgedrag .

Our voting behaviour has proved that this is nonsense.

Frequency

A2
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch onsin (“absurd”), a calque of French non-sens (“nonsense”), equivalent to on- (“un-, not”) + zin (“sense”). Compare English nonsense, German Unsinn (“nonsense”).

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