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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractura (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, from whence also English break and Dutch breken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frɑkˈtyːr/
- Hyphenation: frac‧tuur
- Rhymes: -yːr
Noun
fractuur f (plural fracturen, diminutive fractuurtje n)
- fracture, esp. in a bone
Na het ongeluk werd hij naar het ziekenhuis gebracht vanwege een ernstige fractuur in zijn arm.- After the accident, he was taken to the hospital due to a serious fracture in his arm.
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