hulle
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- (chiefly determiner): hul
Etymology
From dialectal Dutch hullie, contraction of hunlieden (“they, them-people”) or hunlui (“they, them-people”).
Determiner
hulle
Pronoun
hulle
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 | ||
3rd, fem | sy | haar | hare | |||
3rd, 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
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
hulle (imperative hull, present tense huller, simple past and past participle hulla or hullet)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hull (noun)
References
- “hulle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.