zijne
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Pronunciation
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[edit]zijne
- non-attributiveform ofzijn(English:his)
- (archaicordialectal)Inflected form ofzijn
- 1982,Van Kooten en De Bie(lyrics and music), “Het Wijnjaar Nul”, inMooie Meneren. De vijfde langspeelpaat van het Simplisties Verbond:
- Jezus reed niet in een auto rond / Had geen motor onderZijnekont / Dat zou trouwens onverantwoord zijn / Want 's avonds dronk hij liters tafelwijn
- Jesus didn't drive around in a car / Didn't have a motorbike underHisbehind / That would be irresponsible anyway / Because he drank litres of table wine at night
- Used for plurals in archaic literary style.
- Dat zijnzijnevrienden.(contemporary Dutch:Dat zijnzijnvrienden.)―These arehisfriends.
- Used for masculine singulars in Flemish and Brabantian dialects.
- Dat iszijnestoel.(standard Dutch:Dat iszijnstoel.)―That'shischair.
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