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het toeval

coincidence

noun · /ˈtu.vɑl/

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

Forms

Article
het toeval
Plural
de toevallen
Diminutive
het toevalletje
Also means
accident, chance, attack
How common
among the 2,000 most common Dutch words

In a sentence

Dat was puur toeval.

That was pure coincidence.

Ik ontdekte het bij toeval.

I discovered it by chance.

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