Template:nl-noun/documentation

This is the template to use for Dutch nouns. Use it directly under the “Noun” header:

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There are two specialised versions of this template. is used for diminutives. is used for adjectives that are used as nouns, such as or.

Usage
This template can take various parameters, both numbered and named. See m:Help:Template for help with templates and parameters in general.

Parameter 1 provides the gender, parameters 2 and 3 stand for the plural and diminutive, respectively. To specify multiple genders, plurals or diminutives, use,  ,  ,  ,.

Gender
Use  as the first parameter to indicate masculine gender,   for feminine,   for neuter. is used if the noun is used only in the plural with this meaning, but does not necessarily denote several things (plurale tantum). To specify more than one gender, use  or. If you’re not sure about the gender, use  as the gender or just leave it empty. If you know that the noun is a de word, but not whether it's masculine or feminine, use.

Following About Dutch, the special "v/m" gender prescribed by the Taalunie should be denoted here as simply, never as. In practice, most of these nouns are simply feminine to speakers who distinguish three genders. Include multiple genders only if speakers that distinguish three genders would use either gender for the word.

Plural
Use the second parameter to specify the plural:

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Use  to indicate that the word is uncountable, and has no plural:

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Use  and   for multiple plural forms:

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Use  to indicate that the preceding vowel is long:

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Use  to indicate that the preceding vowel is reduced:

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For nouns ending on -f or -s that have the voiced counterparts in the plural, use  or   as a shortcut to generate the plural:

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Diminutive
Use the third parameter to specify the diminutive:

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Use  to omit the diminutive:

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Use  for multiple diminutive forms:

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Compound headword
Use parameter  to override the headword, for example to add links:

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Gendered forms
Use  to specify the equivalent feminine form of a masculine noun:

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Use  to specify the equivalent masculine form of a feminine noun:

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Use  or   for multiple feminine or masculine forms:

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Plural qualifiers
Use,  , etc., for qualifiers of plurals:

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