"eens" meaning in Dutch

See eens in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /eːns/ Audio: Nl-eens.ogg Forms: meer eens [comparative], meest eens [superlative]
Rhymes: -eːns Etymology: From Middle Dutch eens, from Old Dutch ēnis. Equivalent to een + -s. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|eens}} Middle Dutch eens, {{inh|nl|odt|ēnis}} Old Dutch ēnis, {{affix|nl|een|-s}} een + -s Head templates: {{nl-adj|pred}} eens (used only predicatively, comparative meer eens, superlative meest eens)
  1. of one accord or opinion, in agreement Tags: predicative
    Sense id: en-eens-nl-adj-mm0amrpi

Adverb

IPA: /eːns/ Audio: Nl-eens.ogg
Rhymes: -eːns Etymology: From Middle Dutch eens, from Old Dutch ēnis. Equivalent to een + -s. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|eens}} Middle Dutch eens, {{inh|nl|odt|ēnis}} Old Dutch ēnis, {{affix|nl|een|-s}} een + -s Head templates: {{nl-adv}} eens
  1. once, one time Categories (topical): One
    Sense id: en-eens-nl-adv-CYLapRn3 Disambiguation of One: 15 77 4 0 4 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Dutch modal particles, Dutch terms suffixed with -s, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 1 84 8 0 6 Disambiguation of Dutch modal particles: 2 85 8 0 5 Disambiguation of Dutch terms suffixed with -s: 5 77 9 0 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 2 86 8 0 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 88 8 0 2
  2. sometime, at an unspecified time Synonyms: ooit
    Sense id: en-eens-nl-adv-u~lC8LAX
  3. (in negated sentences) even
    Sense id: en-eens-nl-adv-7DgGPIgf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: geeneens, ineens, niet eens, nog eens, nog wel eens, opeens, wel eens

Article

IPA: /eːns/ Audio: Nl-eens.ogg
Rhymes: -eːns Etymology: From Middle Dutch eens, from Old Dutch ēnis. Equivalent to een + -s. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|eens}} Middle Dutch eens, {{inh|nl|odt|ēnis}} Old Dutch ēnis, {{affix|nl|een|-s}} een + -s Head templates: {{head|nl|article form}} eens Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-indefinite article}}
  1. (archaic) genitive masculine/neuter of een; of a Tags: archaic, form-of, genitive, masculine, neuter Form of: een (extra: of a)
    Sense id: en-eens-nl-article-cKS28zA5

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for eens meaning in Dutch (5.7kB)

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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 2025-03-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (b81b832 and 633533e). 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.