het drievoud
threefold
noun · /ˈdri.vɑu̯t/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het drievoud?
Forms
- Article
- het drievoud
- Plural
- de drievouden
- Diminutive
- het drievoudje
- Also means
- triplicate
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Dit contract moet in drievoud worden ondertekend.
This contract must be signed in triplicate.
De opbrengst was het drievoud van vorig jaar.
The yield was three times that of last year.
Hun klantenbestand is tot het drievoud gegroeid.
Their customer base has grown to three times its size.
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