appartement

See also: Appartement and appartément

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˌpɑrtəˈmɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ap‧par‧te‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

appartement n (plural appartementen, diminutive appartementje n)

1. an apartment

   Het appartement was erg klein.

   The apartment was very small.

Derived terms

• appartementencomplex

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French

Etymology

From Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

appartement m (plural appartements)

1. apartment, flat

Descendants

• → Czech: apartmá
• → Dutch: appartement
• → English: apartment (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Appartement
• → Luxembourgish: Appartement
• → Persian: آپارتمان (âpârtemân) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: apartament
• → Turkish: apartman

Further reading

• “appartement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.