sprookje
Meaning
- (neuter) fairy tale
- (neuter) fairy tale
- (figuratively,neuter) dream come true (very desirable life)
Concepts
fairy tale
tale
story
account
history
bedtime story
fairytale
legend
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sprook‧je
Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsproːk.jə/
Etymology
From sproke (obsolete variant of spreuk) + -je (“diminutive suffix”). Note that the word only occurs in this diminutive form; the word "sprook" does not exist (except as a rare back-formation for comedic effect). Compare German Low German Spröökje.
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