vreemd

Sentences

Meaning

Concepts

De dromen
😴💭

waren heel vreemd .

The dreams were very strange.

Het is vreemd dat het al zo koud
🥶

is in oktober .

It's strange that it's already so cold in October.

strange, weird, odd
foreign, exotic

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vreːmt/

Inherited from Middle Dutch

Inherited from Old Dutch

Cognate with German

In summary

From Middle Dutch vremt, vreemt, from Old Dutch fremithi, from Proto-West Germanic *framiþī, from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *perəm-, *prom- (“forth, forward”), from *per- (“to go over”). Cognate with German fremd.