hulle

See also: hülle and Hülle

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• (chiefly determiner): hul
• zulle (obsolete, chiefly urban or upper-class)

Etymology

From dialectal Dutch hullie, contraction of hunlieden (“they, them-people”) or hunlui (“they, them-people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦœ.lə/

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Pronoun

hulle

1. they; them

Determiner

hulle

1. their

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

			subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st		ek	my		myne
	2nd		jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal		u			u s’n
	3rd	masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
		fem	sy	haar		hare
		neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st		ons			ons s’n
	2nd		julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd		hulle / hul1			hulle s’n

¹ The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

hulle

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of hullen

Middle English

Noun

hulle

1. alternative form of hil

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hole

Verb

hulle (imperative hull, present tense huller, simple past and past participle hulla or hullet)

1. to hole, make or drill a hole in something.
2. (in golf) hulle ut - to hole out

Derived terms

• gjennomhulle

Related terms

• hull (noun)

References

• “hulle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.