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Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Referring to the parable of the workers in the vineyard in Matthew 20. The term employs the now archaic dative case, lost in present-day Dutch except for a few idioms.
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
te elfder ure
- at the eleventh hour (at the last minute; at a time close to the end or almost too late)
Usage notes
Te elfder ure is the official form, which is now more common than ter elfder ure, but the latter form is the more common one in older sources. The Statenvertaling of 1637 has ter elfder uyre.
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