uur
uur - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /yr/, [yːr]
- Hyphenation: uur
Noun
uur n (plural uren, diminutive uurtje n)
- an hour, a period of time
- Ze komt over een uur. — She's coming in an hour.
- the hour, the time of day
- Wat doe jij op dit uur nog wakker? — What are you doing still awake at this hour?
- o'clock
- Het is twaalf uur. — It is twelve o'clock.
Usage notes
The singular form is normally used after numerals. Thus: vele uren lang – for many hours; but: drie uur lang – for three hours.
Descendants
- Afrikaans: uur
- Berbice Creole Dutch: juru
- Negerhollands: uur, yer
- → Virgin Islands Creole: i (dated)
- Petjo: uur
- → Sranan Tongo: yuru
- → Aukan: yuu
- → Galibi Carib: juru
- → Kwinti: yuu
- → Saramaccan: júu
- → Trió: juuru
- → Wayana: juru
uur - Middle English
Pronoun
uur
- Alternative form of oure
uur - Saterland Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /uːr/
- Hyphenation: uur
Determiner
uur
- other
- the next
- Uur Dai geen iek tou dän Winkel. ― The next day I went to the shop.
Preposition
uur (neuter or distal adverb deeruur, proximal adverb hieruur, interrogative adverb wieruur)
- over
- about
- (of time) in
- Uur twäin Dege gunge iek tou Spoanjen. ― In two days I'm going to Spain.
- (of amount) over
- Die Film is uur trjo Úre lang. ― The film is over three hours long.
Adverb
uur
- over
- (of time) through; long
- Iek waas dän hele Dai uur züük. ― I was ill the whole day through.
