The Dutch word for animal is
dier
Dutch Definition
| animal | |
| 1. dier, beest |
Translations for animal and their definitions
| dier |  © | |
| 1. n-n. animal, any member of the kingdom Animalia | ||
| 2. det. (demonstrative) her, their, the latter's (genitive feminine singular and genitive plural of die). | ||
| De verdachte heeft zich samen met een vriend, haar dochter en dier vriend schuldig gemaakt aan de moord op haar echtgenoot ... (from a verdict of the Court of Justice at 's-Gravenhage, 2011) | ||
| The accused (woman) is guilty of having murdered her husband in cooperation with a friend, her daughter and the latter's friend ... | ||
| 3. adj. (dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of duur | ||
| beest | |
| 1. n-n. An animal, a beast. | |
| Er zit een beestje in m'n soep. - There is a bug in my soup. | |
| 2. n-n. An animal kept as livestock, a head. | |
| 3. n-n. (figurative) A cruel, wild, uncivilised, uninhibited or brutal person. | |
| De folteraars van de grenspolitie waren sadistische beesten. - The torturers of the border police were sadistic beasts. | |
| Ze is een beest. - She's a beast in bed. |
| dierlijk | |
| 1. adj. (literally) animal, relating to fauna | |
| 2. adj. made of animal(s) (parts), such as furs and edible species | |
| 3. adj. (pejorative) beastly, subhuman, inhumane, etc. | |
| 4. adj. (figuratively) instinctive, primitive |
| dierlijke | |
| 1. adj. of dierlijk |
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