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het misbaksel

failure

noun

Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het misbaksel?

Forms

Article
het misbaksel
Plural
de misbaksels
Diminutive
het misbakseltje
Also means
failed baking product, ugly one, mongrel
How common
in everyday Dutch

In a sentence

Dit brood is een echt misbaksel.

This bread is a real baking disaster.

Het misbaksel rook verbrand.

The failed baking product smelled burnt.

Niemand wilde dit misbaksel eten.

Nobody wanted to eat this failed baking product.

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