het nijlpaard
common hippopotamus
noun · /ˈnɛi̯lˌpaːrt/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het nijlpaard?
Forms
- Article
- het nijlpaard
- Plural
- de nijlpaarden
- Diminutive
- het nijlpaardje
- Also means
- hippopotamus
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Het nijlpaard ligt graag in het water.
The hippopotamus likes to lie in the water.
Heb jij ooit een nijlpaard gezien?
Have you ever seen a hippopotamus?
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