zoet

Meaning

Adj

1. sweet-tasting
2. sweet, pleasant
3. calm; well-behaved, like an obedient child
4. fresh, potable, not saline

Noun

1. (neuter,uncountable) the taste sweet
2. (neuter,uncountable) sweets, such as candy
3. (figuratively,neuter,uncountable) good things in life
4. (neuter,uncountable) an endearment similar to English sweetie or sweetheart

Noun

soot

Verb

1. (first-person,form-of,indicative,present,second-person,singular,third-person) inflection of zoeten:
2. (form-of,imperative) inflection of zoeten:

Pronounced as (IPA)

/zut/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch soete, from Old Dutch suoti, from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus.

Sentences

Slechts twee en een half procent van al het water op deze aarde is zoet .

Only two and a half percent of all water on this earth is sweet.