het stopwoord
filler word
noun · /ˈstɔp.ʋoːrt/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het stopwoord?
Forms
- Article
- het stopwoord
- Plural
- de stopwoorden
- Diminutive
- het stopwoordje
- Also means
- filled pause, safeword
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Zijn stopwoord is 'zeg maar'.
His filler word is 'like'.
Ze gebruikt dat stopwoord veel te vaak.
She uses that filler word far too often.
Wat is jouw meest voorkomende stopwoord?
What is your most common filler word?
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