het breekpunt
breaking point
noun · /ˈbreːk.pʏnt/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het breekpunt?
Forms
- Article
- het breekpunt
- Plural
- de breekpunten
- Diminutive
- het breekpuntje
- Also means
- political red line
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Dit was het breekpunt voor haar.
This was the breaking point for her.
De onderhandelingen bereikten een breekpunt.
The negotiations reached a breaking point.
We zijn bijna op het breekpunt.
We are almost at the breaking point.
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