"den" meaning in Dutch

See den in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Article

IPA: /dən/ [Belgium], /dɛn/ [Netherlands]
Etymology: From Middle Dutch den. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|den}} Middle Dutch den Head templates: {{head|nl|article form}} den Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-definite article}}
  1. (archaic) dative masculine/neuter/plural of de (“the”) Tags: archaic, dative, form-of, masculine, neuter, plural Form of: de (extra: the)
    Sense id: en-den-nl-article-Gb9kFDwQ
  2. (archaic) accusative masculine singular of de Tags: accusative, archaic, form-of, masculine, singular Form of: de
    Sense id: en-den-nl-article-uMyUF6Gf
  3. (Southern, dialectal) masculine singular of de Tags: Southern, dialectal, form-of, masculine, singular Form of: de
    Sense id: en-den-nl-article-O4TMqIE- Categories (other): Southern Dutch
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: op den duur
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /dɛn/ Audio: nl-den.ogg Forms: dennen [plural], dennetje [diminutive, neuter]
Rhymes: -ɛn Etymology: From Middle Dutch dan, danne, denne (“pine tree”), from Old Dutch *danna, from Proto-West Germanic *dannā (“pine tree”). Cognate with German Tanne. Etymology templates: {{dercat|nl|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|nl|dum|dan}} Middle Dutch dan, {{inh|nl|odt|*danna}} Old Dutch *danna, {{inh|nl|gmw-pro|*dannā|t=pine tree}} Proto-West Germanic *dannā (“pine tree”), {{cog|de|Tanne}} German Tanne Head templates: {{nl-noun|m|-en|+}} den m (plural dennen, diminutive dennetje n)
  1. pine, pine tree Tags: masculine Synonyms: dennenboom, pijnboom Hypernyms: naaldboom Derived forms: dennenappel, dennenboom, dennenwolfsklauw, grove den, parasolden, slanke den
    Sense id: en-den-nl-noun-NHlLks6Q Categories (other): Pages with 37 entries, Pages with entries, Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Conifers, Trees Disambiguation of Pages with 37 entries: 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 1 1 2 5 2 9 0 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 1 0 0 0 4 4 1 1 1 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 6 0 0 2 5 2 9 0 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 8 3 3 86 Disambiguation of Conifers: 4 2 2 91 Disambiguation of Trees: 8 2 2 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for den meaning in Dutch (5.0kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.