het kattenkwaad
vexatious conduct
noun · /ˈkɑtə(ŋ)kʋaːt/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het kattenkwaad?
Forms
- Article
- het kattenkwaad
- Also means
- mischief
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
De kinderen haalden veel kattenkwaad uit.
The children got up to a lot of mischief.
Geen kattenkwaad uithalen, hoor!
Don't get into any mischief, okay!
Hij zat vroeger vol kattenkwaad.
He used to be full of mischief.
Other “het” words
Learn this word properly
Reading a word once is not learning it. Add it to your own list and practise until you can produce it from memory.