het-woord

Definitions of het-woord
  1. noun
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
    synonyms: n., neutrum
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    type of:
    genus, geslacht, woordgeslacht
    a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
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