met twee woorden spreken in Dutch

[Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Literally, “to speak with two words”. The "second word" is the title of the person being addressed, making the sentence more polite. For example: ja, meneer "yes, sir". Etymology templates: {{m-g|to speak with two words}} “to speak with two words”, {{lit|to speak with two words}} Literally, “to speak with two words” Head templates: {{nl-verb}} met twee woorden spreken Inflection templates: {{nl-conj-see|spreken}}

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to speak with two words"
      },
      "expansion": "“to speak with two words”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to speak with two words"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to speak with two words”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to speak with two words”. The \"second word\" is the title of the person being addressed, making the sentence more polite. For example: ja, meneer \"yes, sir\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "met twee woorden spreken",
      "name": "nl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spreken"
      },
      "name": "nl-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to speak politely"
      ],
      "id": "en-met_twee_woorden_spreken-nl-verb-sMfF5X9b",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to speak politely"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "met twee woorden spreken"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to speak with two words"
      },
      "expansion": "“to speak with two words”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to speak with two words"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to speak with two words”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to speak with two words”. The \"second word\" is the title of the person being addressed, making the sentence more polite. For example: ja, meneer \"yes, sir\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "met twee woorden spreken",
      "name": "nl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spreken"
      },
      "name": "nl-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch idioms",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch multiword terms",
        "Dutch verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to speak politely"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to speak politely"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "met twee woorden spreken"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). 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.

"met twee woorden spreken" meaning in Dutch

Verb