néerlandais
French, noun
néerlandais is spelled N-É-E-R-L-A-N-D-A-I-S (11 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Néerlandais is a French masculine noun meaning “Dutch, the Dutch language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Néerlandais is a different word: “Dutchman”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue germanique issue du bas-allemand parlée aux Pays-Bas, au Suriname et en Flandre (partie nord de la…”.
What does néerlandais mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Dutch, Netherlandish
noun
- 1
masculineDutch, the Dutch language
noun
- 1
masculineDutchman
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Habitant des Pays-Bas, ou personne qui en est originaire. 2. Peuple germanique qui vit essentiellement aux Pays-Bas.
noun: 1. Langue germanique issue du bas-allemand parlée aux Pays-Bas, au Suriname et en Flandre (partie nord de la Belgique).
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Pays-Bas, leur langue, leurs habitants, leur culture.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of néerlandais
- néerlandaise feminine
- néerlandaises feminine plural
- néerl. alternative
- Néerlandaise feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to néerlandais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is néerlandais in French?
néerlandais appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).