het perkament
parchment
noun · /ˌpɛr.kaːˈmɛnt/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het perkament?
Forms
- Article
- het perkament
- Plural
- de perkamenten
- Diminutive
- het perkamentje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
De oorkonde is van perkament gemaakt.
The charter is made of parchment.
De monnik schreef de tekst op perkament.
The monk wrote the text on parchment.
Ze vonden een oud perkament in de kist.
They found an old parchment in the chest.
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