hulle

See also: hülle, and Hülle

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• (chiefly determiner): hul
• zulle (obsolete, chiefly urban or upper-class)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦœ.lə/

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Pronoun

hulle

1. they; them

Determiner

hulle

1. their

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul1			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

hulle

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of hullen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hole

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

• gjennomhulle

Related terms

• hull (noun)

References

• “hulle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.