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stad.

city, town

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/stɑt/

  1. city, town

    feminine
    Amsterdam is een bruisende stad vol cultuur.
    Ze verhuisde van een klein dorp naar een grote stad.

  2. the town/city centre

    feminine
    Ik ben nu in de stad.
    Ik ga de stad in.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stat, stedi (whence stede, stee), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. The plural has preserved the old Germanic umlaut in a morphological function, a rarity in Dutch. Several derived terms have umlaut as well.

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