het onvermogen
incapacity
noun · /ˈɔn.vərˈmoːɣə(n)/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het onvermogen?
Forms
- Article
- het onvermogen
- Plural
- de onvermogens
- Diminutive
- het onvermogentje
- Also means
- inability
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Ik voel mijn onvermogen om dit te begrijpen.
I feel my inability to understand this.
Zijn onvermogen om te luisteren irriteerde me.
His inability to listen irritated me.
Door zijn onvermogen ging het mis.
Due to his inability, it went wrong.
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