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Old 03-05-18 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Stadjer
The only loan word from Swedish I can think of is ombudsman, wrongly changed to ombudsvrouw (ombudswoman) in case a female holds this position.
Is "vrouw" in Dutch the same as "frau" in German?

I guess that I can understand a fair bit of Dutch when it's spoken, but I've never learned it phonetically. "Vrije" is "Frei" or "free" essentially? So maybe the Vr makes the f? Also that IJ digraph is pretty cool.

IJ digraph
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