hulle

See also: hülle and Hülle

Afrikaans

Alternative forms
  • (chiefly determiner): hul

Etymology

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

Determiner

hulle

  1. their

Pronoun

hulle

  1. they; them

See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
subjective objective possessive
singular 1st ek my
2nd jy jou
2nd, formal u
3rd, masc hy hom sy
3rd, fem sy haar
3rd, neut dit sy
plural 1st ons
2nd julle julle / jul1
3rd hulle hulle / hul1
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Verb

hulle

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hullen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

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

References
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