oud

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Meaning

old
stale (of bread)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɑu̯t/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”). Compare German alt, West Frisian âld, Low German old, English old.

Cognate with German

alt

Cognate with Western Frisian

âld

Cognate with English

old

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Sentences

Het was duidelijk een oud
🧓

huis
🏠

.

It was clearly an old house.

Mijn kinderen zijn negen
9

en tien
10

jaar oud
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.

My children are nine and ten years old.

Het agentschap is maar drie
3

jaar oud
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.

The agency is only three years old.

De hangbrug was oud
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en hij is door de vermolmde plank gezakt .

The suspension bridge was old and it fell through the crumbling shelf.

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