het heimwee
homesickness
noun · /ˈɦɛi̯mʋeː/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het heimwee?
Forms
- Article
- het heimwee
- Plural
- de heimweeën
- Diminutive
- het heimweetje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Ik heb vaak heimwee als ik op reis ben.
I often get homesick when I'm traveling.
Heb jij ook zo'n last van heimwee?
Do you also suffer so much from homesickness?
Gelukkig had ze helemaal geen heimwee.
Luckily, she had no homesickness at all.
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