hulle

See also: hülle and Hülle

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • (chiefly determiner): hul
  • zulle (obsolete, chiefly urban or upper-class)

Etymology

From dialectal Dutch hullie, contraction of hunlieden (“they, them-people”) or hunlui (“they, them-people”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦœ.lə/
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Pronoun

hulle

  1. they; them

Determiner

hulle

  1. their

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns
subjective objective possessive
determiner 		possessive
pronoun
singular 1st ek my myne
2nd jy jou joune
2nd, formal u u s’n
3rd masc hy hom sy syne
fem sy haar hare
neut dit sy syne
plural 1st ons ons s’n
2nd julle / jul1 julle s’n
3rd hulle / hul1 hulle s’n
1 The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

hulle

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of hullen

Middle English

Noun

hulle

  1. alternative form of hil

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

hulle (imperative hull, present tense huller, simple past and past participle hulla or hullet)

  1. to hole, make or drill a hole in something.
  2. (in golf) hulle ut - to hole out

Derived terms

References

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