The word dutch in english

The Netherlands has a long history of global trade and colonialism, and those centuries of international involvement led to a lasting mark on the English language.

The English, in particular, came up with some very colourful ways of describing or referring to the Dutch during the 17th century and beyond.

Reflection of Dutch — English relations

Most idioms about the Dutch in the English language came into being after 1665.

This was a time when the Netherlands had conflicts with the English on both land and sea, including the loss of the Dutch colony of what later became New York.

Idioms with the word Dutch

Here are some of the descriptive ways the English used to refer to Dutch people.

› Beat the Dutch: To exceed expectations.

› Dutch act / cure: Committing suicide.

› Dutch agreement: An agreement made while intoxicated.

› Dutch auction: An auction in which the goods are offered at gradually decreasing prices. The first bidder to accept wins.

› Dutch bargain: A bargain settled over drinks.

› Dutch collar: A horse collar.

› Dutch comfort: Deriving comfort from the fact that things could be worse.

› Dutch concert: Lots of noise, like that made by a group of drunken Dutchmen.

› Dutch courage: Liquid courage provided by alcohol.

› Dutch defence: A sham defence.

› Dutch generosity: Stinginess.

› Dutch headache: Hangover.

› Dutch leaf: False gold leaf.

› Dutch leave: When a soldier is absent without leave, AWOL.

› Dutch gold: An alloy of copper and zinc, yellow in colour, that’s easily tarnished unless lacquered. Imitation gold leaf is made from it, hence the name Dutch leaf. It is also called Dutch metal.

› Dutch nightingales: Frogs.

› Dutch reckoning: an excessively high bill that’s neither itemised nor detailed.

› Dutch rub: To rub your knuckles across the top of someone’s head while holding their head under your other arm.

› Dutch talent: More brawn than brain.

› Dutch treat: When you go out to eat and each person pays for themselves. To go Dutch has the same meaning.

› Dutch widow: A prostitute.

› Dutch wife: A long bolster.

› Dutched: Cancelled.

› Dutchman’s draught: A very large beer.

› Double Dutch: Gibberish, hard to understand language. Also a jump rope game.

› To go Dutch: When you go out to eat and each person pays for themselves. Same as Dutch treat.

› To be in Dutch with someone: Being in trouble with someone.

› I’m a Dutchman if I do: A strong refusal.

› If not, I’m a Dutchman: Used to strengthen an affirmation or assertion.

› In Dutch: In trouble, out of favour, under suspicion.

› To talk like a Dutch uncle: Being stern and firm.

› Well, I’m a Dutchman!: An exclamation of strong incredulity.

More positive idioms with ‘Dutch’

It wasn’t all bad what the English use to say about the Dutch. Here are some nicer and some more modern expressions with the word Dutch.

› Dutch angle / tilt: a type of camera shot in films

› Dutch betting: the practice of backing more than one selection to achieve the same profit regardless of which selection wins.

› Dutch barn: A farm building with a curved roof on a frame that has no walls.

› Dutch bulb: The term used to describe collectively certain kinds of garden bulbs that are planted in the fall for spring bloom.

› Dutch clover: White clover, a valuable pasture plant.

› Dutch cousins: Close friends

› Dutch door: A door divided horizontally so that the lower or upper part can be shut separately.

› Dutch hoe: A scuffle hoe, a garden hoe that has both edges sharpened and can be pushed forward or drawn back.

› Dutch mineral: Copper beaten out into very thin leaves.

› Dutch oven: a heavy cast iron cooking pot with tight-fitting lid. A second (less pleasant) definition of Dutch oven also exists, it refers to flatulence in bed.

› Dutch roll: A combination of directional and lateral oscillation of an airplane.

› Dutchman’s log: A rough method for finding a ship’s speed by throwing a piece of wood into the sea well in front of it, then timing its passage between two marks on the vessel.

› Flying Dutchman: A ghost ship. A sailor who sees a Flying Dutchman will die before reaching home.

› Pennsylvania Dutch: This is actually German and not Dutch at all; the confusion stems from Deutsch, the German word for German.

Have you heard any of these old idioms about the Dutch? Any to add?

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существительное ↓

- the Dutch — голландцы

He loves learning about the Dutch. — Ему нравится узнавать новое о голландцах.

- a Dutch — голландец

The vase was sold to a Dutch buyer. — Ваза была продана покупателю из Голландии.

прилагательное ↓

- голландский

English, Dutch and German are cognate languages. — Английский, голландский и немецкий — родственные языки.
The old Dutch fortress looks virtually impregnable. — Старая голландская крепость выглядит практически неприступной.

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

his simple but striking delineations of Dutch landscapes — его простые, но яркие изображения голландских пейзажей
that / it beats the Dutch — это превосходит всё
to talk like a Dutch uncle — отечески наставлять, журить
dutch bargain — сделка, выгодная только одной стороне
dutch agreement — соглашение, выгодное только для одной стороны
dutch kiln — печь для обжига кирпича
dutch marble paper — мраморная бумага
dutch oven furnace — выносная топка
dutch penetrometer — пенетрометр
dutch roll eigenvalue — собственное значение, соответствующее колебаниям типа «голландский шаг»
dutch-roll instability — боковая колебательная неустойчивость
my old dutch — моя старуха (о жене)

Примеры с переводом

Steve’s married to a lovely Dutch girl.

Стив женился на прекрасной голландской девушке.

The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter.

Зимой голландцы часто катаются вдоль каналов.

The prize for best photography has been won by a young Dutch photographer.

Приз за лучшую фотографию выиграл молодой голландский фотограф.

The Dutch fleet captured two English ships.

Голландская флотилия захватила два английских судна.

Don’t think that learning Dutch will be a breeze.

Не думайте, что выучить голландский будет проще простого.

Dutch differs little structurally from Low German.

Нидерландский язык структурно мало отличается от нижненемецкого.

This region was settled by the Dutch in the nineteenth century.

В 19-м веке эта местность была заселена голландскими колонистами.

In June 1667, England suffered a humiliating defeat by the Dutch.

В июне 1667 года Англия потерпела унизительное поражение от голландцев.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Louis is virtually bilingual in Dutch and German.

Germanic languages, such as German, English, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.

…the golden age of Dutch culture was roughly coextensive with the Netherlands’ reign as a world power…

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

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English[edit]

Wiktionary

Alternative forms[edit]

(abbreviation): Du.

Etymology[edit]

PIE word
*tewtéh₂

From Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and tuath.

Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.

The pejorative sense is said to come from the ingenuity of poor Germanic immigrants settling in the Anglosphere in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pronunciation[edit]

enPR: dŭch, IPA^(key): /dʌt͡ʃ/
Rhymes: -ʌtʃ

Adjective[edit]

Dutch (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
(archaic, regional, fossil word) Pertaining to Germanic-speaking peoples on the European continent, chiefly the Dutch, the Germans, and the Goths; Teutonic; Germanic. Especially refers to Germans, and specific use to established German-speaking communities in parts of the USA.
(obsolete, fossil word, derogatory) Substitute, inferior, ersatz.
(dated) Thrifty.
(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch).

Derived terms[edit]

double Dutch
Dutch act
Dutch angle
Dutch auction
Dutch bargain
Dutch bob
Dutch braid
Dutch cap
Dutch carpet
Dutch cheese
Dutch cleanser
Dutch clover
Dutch comfort
Dutch concert
Dutch corner
Dutch courage
Dutch crossing
Dutch date
Dutch disease
Dutch door
Dutch elm disease
Dutch feast
Dutch gable
Dutch gold
Dutch hand
Dutch hoe
Dutch liquid
Dutch Low Saxon
Dutch metal
Dutch oven
Dutch pink
Dutch reckoning
Dutch roll
Dutch tilt
Dutch treat
Dutch uncle
Dutch widow
Dutch wife
Dutch-built
Dutch-buttocked
Dutchman, dutchman
Dutchwoman
go Dutch
in Dutch

Translations[edit]

of the Netherlands, people, or language

Afrikaans: Nederlands (af)
Albanian: holandez (sq)
Arabic: هُولَنْدِيّ‎ (hūlandiyy)

Hijazi Arabic: هُولَنْدِي‎ m (hōlandi)
Aragonese: olandés
Armenian: հոլանդական (hy) (holandakan), նիդերլանդական (niderlandakan)
Assamese: ওলন্দাজ (ülondaz)
Azerbaijani: niderland
Basque: nederlandar
Belarusian: гала́ндскі (halándski), галя́ндзкі (haljándzki), нідэрла́ндскі (niderlándski), нідэрля́ндзкі (niderljándzki), галяндэ́рскі (haljandérski)
Bengali: ওলন্দাজ (bn) (ōlondaj), ডাচ (ḍac)
Breton: izelvroeg (br)
Bulgarian: хола́ндски (holándski)
Burmese: နယ်သာလန် (naisalan)
Catalan: neerlandès (ca), (dated) holandès (ca)

Valencian: neerlandés (ca), (dated) holandés (ca)
Cherokee: ᏁᏓᎳ (nedala)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 荷蘭的／荷兰的 (zh) (Hélán de)
Corsicsan: ulandese (co), olandese (co)
Czech: holandský (cs), nizozemský (cs)
Danish: hollandsk, nederlandsk (da)
Dhivehi: ޑަޗު‎ (dv) (ḍacu)
Dutch: Nederlands (nl)
Esperanto: nederlanda (eo)
Farefare: tɩntɩŋ
Faroese: niðurlendskur
Finnish: hollantilainen (fi), alankomaalainen (fi)
French: néerlandais (fr), hollandais (fr)
Galician: holandés (gl)
Georgian: ნიდერლანდური (niderlanduri), ჰოლანდიური (holandiuri)
German: niederländisch (de), holländisch (de)
Greek: ολλανδικός (el) (ollandikós)
Hawaiian: Hōlani
Hindi: डच (hi) (ḍac), ओलंदेजी (hi) (olandejī), ओलन्देजी (hi) (olandejī), ओलंदेज (hi) (olandej), ओलन्देज (hi) (olandej), ओलंदेज़ (olandez), ओलन्देज़ (olandez)
Hungarian: holland (hu)
Icelandic: hollenskur (is), niðurlenskur
Ido: Nederlandana (io)
Indonesian: Belanda (id)
Interlingua: hollandese, nederlandese (ia)
Italian: olandese (it)
Japanese: オランダの (ja) (Oranda no), 蘭 (ja) (らん, Ran)
Kazakh: голланд (golland), голландық (gollandyq), нидерланд (niderland)
Khmer: ហូឡង់ (km) (houlɑng), ណេដឺរឡន់ថ៍ (needəɨlɑn)
Korean: 네덜란드의 (ko) (Nedeollandeuui)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: holendî (ku)
Kyrgyz: нидерланд (niderland), голланд (golland)
Lao: ໂຮນລັງ (lo) (hōn lang)
Latin: batavicus, nederlandicus
Latvian: nīderlandiešu, nīderlandisks
Limburgish: Nieëderlandjsj
Lithuanian: olandų (lt), olandiškas
Low German: nedderlandsch (nds)
Macedonian: холандски (holandski)
Malay: Belanda, (obsolete) Belandawi
Marathi: डच (ḍac)
Mongolian: голланд (golland), нидерланд (niderland)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: nederlandsk (no)

Nynorsk: nederlandsk (nn)
Occitan: neerlandés (oc), olandés
Papiamentu: hulandes
Pashto: هالېنډي‎ (hālenḍí)
Persian: هلندی‎ (fa) (holandi)
Piedmontese: olandèis
Polish: niderlandzki (pl), holenderski (pl)
Portuguese: holandês (pt), neerlandês (pt), batavo (rarely used)
Romanian: olandez (ro), neerlandez (ro)
Russian: голла́ндский (ru) (gollándskij), нидерла́ндский (ru) (niderlándskij)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: хо̀ландскӣ, ни̏зозе̄мскӣ

Roman: hòlandskī (sh), nȉzozēmskī (sh)
Slovak: holandský (sk)
Slovene: nizozẹ̑mski (sl)
Spanish: neerlandés (es), holandés (es)
Sranan Tongo: bakra
Swahili: kiholanzi
Swedish: holländsk (sv), nederländsk (sv)
Tagalog: Olandes (tl)
Tajik: ҳоландӣ (holandī)
Tatar: нидерланд (niderland)
Thai: เนเธอร์แลนด์ (th) (nee-tə̂ə-lɛɛn), ฮอลแลนด์ (th) (hɔn-lɛɛn), ฮอลันดา (th) (hɔɔ-lan-daa), ดัตช์ (th) (dát)
Turkish: Hollandalı (tr)
Turkmen: goland, niderland
Ukrainian: голла́ндський (hollándsʹkyj), нідерла́ндський (uk) (niderlándsʹkyj)
Urdu: ولندیزی‎ (valandezī), ڈچ‎ (ḍac)
Uyghur: گوللاندىيە‎ (gollandiye)
Uzbek: niderland (uz), golland (uz)
Venetian: olandexe, nederlandexe (vec)
Vietnamese: Hà Lan (荷蘭)
West Frisian: Nederlânsk (fy) n, Hollânsk (fy) n
Zhuang: Hozlanz

Proper noun[edit]

Dutch

The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium); Netherlandic.
(archaic) German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).
A male given name, more often given as a nickname to someone of Dutch or German ancestry than as an official given name

Synonyms[edit]

(language of Netherlands and Flanders):

Netherlandic, Netherlandish

Holonyms[edit]

(language of Netherlands and Flanders):

Low Franconian

Derived terms[edit]

Cape Dutch
High-Dutch/High Dutch
Low-Dutch/Low Dutch
Middle Dutch
Netherdutch
Old Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch

Descendants[edit]

→ Hindi: डच (ḍac)

Translations[edit]

the Dutch language

Afrikaans: Nederlands (af)
Akan: Dɛɛkye
Albanian: gjuha holandeze
Alemannic German: Niederländisch
Arabic: هُولَنْدِيَّة‎ (ar) f (hūlandiyya)

Hijazi Arabic: هُولَنْدِي‎ m (hōlandi)
Aragonese: olandés
Armenian: հոլանդերեն (hy) (holanderen), նիդերլանդերեն (niderlanderen)
Assamese: ওলন্দাজ ভাষা (ülondaz bhaxa)
Asturian: neerlandés (ast) m
Azerbaijani: Niderland dili
Banyumasan: Basa Landa
Basque: nederlandera (eu)
Belarusian: гала́ндская мо́ва f (halándskaja móva), гала́ндская f (halándskaja)
Breton: nederlandeg m, izelvroeg (br) m
Bulgarian: холандски (holandski)
Catalan: neerlandès (ca) m, (dated) holandès (ca) m

Valencian: neerlandés (ca) m, (dated) holandés (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏁᏓᎳ (nedala)
Chinese:

Hakka: 荷蘭語／荷兰语 (Hò-làn-ngî / Hò-nàn-ngî)

Mandarin: 荷蘭語／荷兰语 (zh) (hélányǔ)

Min Nan: 荷蘭語／荷兰语 (Hô-lân-gí), 和蘭語／和兰语 (O-lân-gí)
Cornish: iseldiryek
Corsican: neerlandese m, nederlandese (co) m, olandese (co) m, ulandese (co) m
Crimean Tatar: Felâmenk tili
Czech: holandština (cs) f, nizozemština (cs) f
Danish: hollandsk, nederlandsk (da)
Dhivehi: ޑަޗު‎ (dv) (ḍacu)
Dutch: Nederlands (nl) n
Dutch Low Saxon: Nederlaands (nds)
Esperanto: nederlanda (eo)
Estonian: hollandi
Farefare: tɩntɩnnɛ
Faroese: niðurlendskt (fo) n, hálendskt n
Finnish: hollanti (fi)
French: néerlandais (fr) m, hollandais (fr) m
Galician: holandés (gl) m, lingua neerlandesa f
Georgian: ნიდერლანდური ენა (niderlanduri ena), ჰოლანდიური ენა (holandiuri ena)
German: Niederländisch (de) n, Holländisch (de) n
Greek: ολλανδικά (el) n pl (ollandiká)
Gujarati: ડચ (gu) (ḍac)
Hebrew: הולנדית‎ (he) (holandít)
Hindi: डच (hi) (ḍac)
Hungarian: holland (hu)
Icelandic: hollenska (is)
Ido: Nederlandana linguo, Nederlandana (io)
Indonesian: bahasa Belanda
Interlingua: hollandese, nederlandese (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐦᐅᓚᓐᑎᑐᑦ (holantitot)
Irish: Ísiltíris, Ollainnis
Italian: nederlandese m, olandese (it)
Japanese: オランダ語 (ja) (Oranda-go), 蘭語 (ja) (らんご, Rango)
Kazakh: нидерланд тілі (niderland tılı)
Khmer: ណេដឺរឡន់ថ៍ (nedəɨlɑn)
Korean: 네덜란드어 (ko) (Nedeollandeueo)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: holendî (ku)
Latin: batavice, nederlandice
Latvian: nīderlandiešu, nīderlandiešu valoda
Ligurian: lengua olandeise f
Limburgish: Nederlands (li)
Lingala: Lifalamá
Lithuanian: olandų kalba
Low German: Nedderlandsch (nds) n
Luxembourgish: Nidderlännesch n, Hollännesch (lb) n
Macedonian: холандски јазик m (holandski jazik)
Malay: bahasa Belanda
Manx: Ollanish
Mapudungun: olanda dungun
Marathi: डच भाषा (ḍac bhāṣā)
Navajo: Tsin Bikeeʼ Dineʼé bizaad
Nepali: डच (ḍac)
Norman: Hollandais m
Northern Sami: Hollánddagiella
Norwegian:

Bokmål: nederlandsk (no) m

Nynorsk: nederlandsk (nn) m
Occitan: neerlandés (oc) m, holandés m
Ossetian: Нидерландаг ӕвзаг (Niderlandag ævzag)
Papiamentu: hulandes, idioma hulandes
Persian: هلندی‎ (fa) (holandi)
Piedmontese: olandèis, lenga olandèisa f, neerlandèis, lenga neerlandèisa f
Polish: (język) niderlandzki (pl), (język) holenderski (pl)
Portuguese: holandês (pt), neerlandês (pt), batavo (rarely used)
Quechua: Urasuyu simi
Romanian: neerlandeză (ro) f, olandeză (ro) f, limba olandeză f
Russian: голла́ндский (ru) (gollándskij), нидерла́ндский (ru) (niderlándskij)
Scots: Dutch leid
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: холандски m, низоземски m

Roman: holandski (sh) m, nizozemski (sh) m, nizozemski jezik m
Sicilian: lingua ulannisa f
Slovak: holandčina (sk)
Slovene: nizozémščina (sl) f
Sotho: Se-dutch
Spanish: neerlandés (es) m, holandés (es) m
Sranan Tongo: Bakratongo, wetimantongo (colloquial)
Swahili: Kiholanzi
Swedish: nederländska (sv), holländska (sv)
Tagalog: Olandes (tl)
Tamil: டச்சு மொழி (ta) (ṭaccu moḻi)
Thai: ภาษาดัตช์ (th) (paasăa dât)
Tigrinya: ዳች (dač), ሆላንድኛ (holandəña)
Turkish: Hollandaca (tr)
Ukrainian: нідерла́ндська (uk) f (niderlándsʹka), голла́ндська f (hollándsʹka)
Upper Sorbian: nižozemšćina (hsb)
Urdu: ولندیزی‎ (valandezī), ڈچ‎ (ḍac)
Venetian: łéngua ołandexe f
Vietnamese: tiếng Hà Lan (vi)
Volapük: Nedänapük (vo)
Walloon: Neyerlandès
Welsh: iseldireg
West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Algemêen Nederlands
West Frisian: Nederlânsk (fy), Hollânsk (fy)
Zulu: IsiHolandi

Noun[edit]

Dutch pl (plural only)

(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.

The Dutch will vote on the matter next month.

In upstate New York, the Dutch continued to speak their language into the nineteenth century.
(collective, South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).
(collective) The Pennsylvania Dutch people.

Hyponyms[edit]

High-Dutch, High Dutch
Low-Dutch, Low Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch

Derived terms[edit]

Black Dutch
Cape Dutch
Dutchland
Fancy Dutch
Gay Dutch
Netherdutch
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutchland
Plain Dutch

[edit]

Deutsch
Dutch-bottomed
Dutchie, Dutchy
Flying Dutchman
Teuton

Translations[edit]

people from the Netherlands

Arabic: هُولَنْدِيُّون‎ m pl (hūlandiyyūn), هُولَنْدِيَّات‎ f pl (hūlandiyyāt)
Aragonese: olandés m, olandesa f
Armenian: հոլանդացի (holandacʿi), նիդերլանդացի (niderlandacʿi)
Basque: nederlandar, herbeheretar, holandar
Breton: izelvroat, nederlandat
Bulgarian: холандец m (holandec)
Buryat: нидерландынхид pl (nidjerlandynxid)
Catalan: neerlandès (ca) m, neerlandesa (ca) f, (dated) holandès (ca) m, holandesa (ca) f

Valencian: neerlandés (ca) m, neerlandesa (ca) f, (dated) holandés (ca) m, holandesa (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 荷蘭人／荷兰人 (Hélán-rén)
Corsican: neerlandese
Czech: Holanďan (cs) m, Holanďanka (cs) f, Nizozemec (cs) m, Nizozemka (cs) f
Danish: hollænder
Dutch: Nederlander (nl) m, Nederlandse (nl) f, Nederlanders (nl) pl
Esperanto: nederlandano
Farefare: tɩntɩŋa sg, tɩntɩnsɩ pl
Faroese: niðurlendingur m
Finnish: hollantilainen (fi), alankomaalainen (fi)
French: Néerlandais (fr), Hollandais (fr)
Galician: holandés (gl) m, holandesa f
Georgian: ნიდერლანდელები (niderlandelebi), ჰოლანდიელები (holandielebi), ნიდერლანდელი (niderlandeli), ჰოლანდიელი (holandieli)
German: Niederländer (de), Holländer (de)
Greek: Ολλανδοί (el) m pl (Ollandoí)
Hawaiian: Hōlani
Hindi: डच (hi) (ḍac), ओलंदेज (hi) m (olandej), ओलन्देज (hi) m (olandej), ओलंदेज़ m (olandez), ओलन्देज़ m (olandez), ओलन्देजी (hi) m (olandejī), ओलन्देजी (hi) m (olandejī)
Hungarian: holland (hu), hollandus (old)
Icelandic: Hollendingur m
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} orang Belanda
Interlingua: hollandese, nederlandese (ia)
Italian: olandese (it) m or f, neerlandese m or f
Japanese: オランダ人 (ja) (Oranda-jin)
Javanese: wong Walanda, londo
Khmer: ដាច់ (km) (dac), ណេដឺរឡន់ថ៍ (nedəɨlɑn)
Korean: 네덜란드인 (ko) (nedeollandeu’in)
Latin: batavus m
Macedonian: Холанѓанец m (Holanǵanec), Холанѓанка f (Holanǵanka), Холанѓани pl (Holanǵani)
Malay: ^{(please verify)} orang Belanda
Marathi: डच (ḍac)
Navajo: Tsin Bikeeʼ Dineʼé
Norwegian:

Bokmål: nederlender (no) m, nederlending m

Nynorsk: nederlendar (nn) m, nederlending (nn) m
Persian: هلندی‌ها‎ (holandi-hâ)
Piedmontese: olandèis
Polish: Holendrzy, Niderlandczycy
Portuguese: holandês (pt), neerlandês (pt), batavo (rarely used)
Romanian: olandez (ro) m, olandeză (ro) f, olandezi (ro) pl, olandeze (ro) f pl
Russian: голла́ндец (ru) m (gollándec), голла́ндка (ru) f (gollándka), нидерла́ндец (ru) m (niderlándec), нидерла́ндка (ru) f (niderlándka)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Холанђанин m, Низоземац m, Холанђанка f, Низоземкиња f

Roman: Holanđanin m, Nizozemac (sh) m, Holanđanka f, Nizozemkinja f
Slovak: Holanďan m, Holanďanka f
Slovene: Nizozémec (sl) m, Nizozémka f
Spanish: holandés (es) m
Sundanese: urang Walanda
Swedish: holländare (sv) m, holländska (sv) f, nederländare (sv) m, nederländska (sv) f
Tagalog: Olandes (tl)
Turkish: Hollandalı (tr)
Urdu: ولندیزی‎‎ (valandezī)
Venetian: olandexe m or f
West Frisian: Nederlanner, Hollanner

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Dutch (third-person singular simple present Dutches, present participle Dutching, simple past and past participle Dutched)

To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor.
- 2015, Deb Wise, Incredibly Decadent Desserts: 100 Divine Treats Under 300 Calories:
  
  Dutch processed is made from cocoa beans that have been treated with an alkalized solution. You’ll get a deeper color and a great chocolaty flavor, but more importantly, the process of Dutching the chocolate renders the powder neutral.

Where Dutch came from

Before we dig into this demonym, there are three terms we need to define: Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch. The Old English cousin to Dutch, thiod or theod, simply meant “people or nation.” (This also helps explain why Germany is called Deutschland in German.)

Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany, and now just the Netherlands today. (At that point in time, in the early 1500s, the Netherlands and parts of Germany, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, were all part of the Holy Roman Empire.) Specifically the phrase High Dutch referred to people from the mountainous area of what is now southern Germany. Low Dutch referred to people from the flatlands in what is now the Netherlands.

Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word Netherlands was used to describe people from the low-lying (nether) region (land). The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in 1815, they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The word Holland literally meant “wood-land” in Old English and originally referred to people from the northern region of the Netherlands. Over time, Holland, among English speakers, came to apply to the entire country, though it only refers to two provinces—the coastal North and South Holland—in the Netherlands today. Got all that?

Other demonyms

In some cases, the demonym preceded the place name. For example, Finland is the place where the Finns live, just as Germany is the place where the Germans live. The people came before the official government and place name. (Parts of what we call Germany was called Prussia until 1932.)

In English we denote place of origin by suffixes. The most common suffixes that denote place are: -(a)n (Chicagoan), -er (New Yorker), -ese (Chinese), -ian (Norwegian), and -ish (English).

Where did these suffixes come form? Latin, of course. -ish actually comes from Old English, which is why citizens of the British Isles have -ish demonyms: Scottish, Welsh, English, etc. The other suffixes came from Latin, though they each convey slightly different senses. The suffix -ese most directly meant “belonging to or originating in a place,” while -(a)n and -ian are variations on the same suffix meaning “belonging to.” The suffix -er was used principally in the sense of “one having to do with a thing,” as in lawyer or villager. As with most vocabulary in English, they all now coexist and serve the same purpose.

It’s also important not to confuse demonyms with adjectives. You can listen to an Argentinian song, but it is sung by an Argentine.

Here are a few of our other favorite exceptions to the rule:
Kiwi
Neapolitan
Liverpudlian
Cypriot
Czech
Turk
Buckeye
Hoosier
Spaniard
Greek
Swiss
Swede
Uzbek

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Noun

He loves learning about the Dutch.

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s a lot of Dutch influence and a lot of European influence here.

—Richard Quest And Joe Minehane, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023

Located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the island got its name in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen encountered it on Easter Sunday.

—Terri Robertson, Country Living, 4 Apr. 2023

China’s loudest complaint: It is blocked from buying a machine available only from a Dutch company, ASML, that uses ultraviolet light to etch circuits into silicon chips on a scale measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter.

—Joe Mcdonald, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023

The accident happened near Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, at approximately 3:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning when the train hit a construction crane on the tracks and derailed, a Dutch railway spokesperson told ABC News.

—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2023

Moreover, Stein was the behind-the-scenes missing link between such disparate acts as the English blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac in the 1960s, the Dutch prog-rock band Focus in the early 1970s, and the The Pretenders and Richard Hell & the Voidoids later in the same decade.

—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023

The first flight for KLM, the Dutch airline, was in 1920.

—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023

The frenzied clamor for tickets has probably only been matched recently by the announcement of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour—except, in this case, the gilded megastar in question is an unassuming 17th-century genre painter and not-very-successful art dealer from the sleepy Dutch city of Delft.

—Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023

Plus, affordable higher education, an excellent job market, a strong sense of community, and high civic engagement all reinstate a sense of happiness in Dutch society.

—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2023

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