hoes

See also: hös

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊz

Noun

hoes

1. plural of hoe
2. plural of ho

Verb

hoes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoe

Anagrams

• HEOs, Heos, Hose, Shoe, hose, shoe

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French housse (“slipcase”), or from an Old French or Picard form of this word.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us

Noun

hoes f (plural hoezen, diminutive hoesje n)

1. cover

   platenhoes — album cover

Derived terms

• insteekhoes
• platenhoes
• beschermhoes

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Dutch Low Saxon

Noun

hoes n (plural huze, dimunitive huuske)

1. house

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Limburgish

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch huus, from Old Dutch hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦuː˨s]

Noun

hoes n

1. house
2. home
3. building

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	hoes	hoezer	huuske	huuskes
Genitive	hoezes	hoezer	huuskes	huuskes
Locative	heives	heiveser	heiveske	heiveskes
Dative¹	hoeze	hoezer	heivemske	heivemskes
Accusative¹	hoes	hoezern	huuske	huuskes

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

See also

• heim

Etymology 2

Related to Dutch hoes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦu˦s]

Noun

hoes f

1. cover

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	hoes	hoeze	huuske	huuskes
Genitive	hoezes	hoeze	huuskes	huuskes
Locative	hoezes	hoezeser	?	?
Dative¹	?	?	?	?
Accusative¹	hoes²	hoeze²	?	?

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• Reconstructed using regular conjugations.

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Middle English

Pronoun

hoes

1. (Late Middle English, rare) Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)