See also: Gracht

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Etymology

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From Dutch gracht.

Noun

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gracht (plural grachts)

  1. A canal in a city, with houses on each side.
    • 1848, James Silk Buckingham, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour:
      Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred smaller grachts, or canal-streets.

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch gracht, from Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz. Equivalent to graven (to dig) +‎ -t (verbal noun).

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Noun

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Een gracht in Amsterdam.
A canal in Amsterdam.

gracht f or m (plural grachten, diminutive grachtje n)

  1. (Netherlands) canal (in a city, with houses on each side)
    Synonym: rui
    In Amsterdam is er een straat langs een gracht, waar een beperkt stopverbod van kracht is.
    In Amsterdam, there is a road running alongside a canal where parking is restricted.
  2. (Belgium) ditch, trench (in the countryside, referring to both those that contain water and those that are dry)
    • 2017 January 10, Het Laatste Nieuws, "Monsterfile op E17 na ongeval in Destelbergen, vrachtwagen in gracht op E40".
      Op de E40 tussen Beernem en Aalter kreeg een vrachtwagen rond 7 uur 's morgens een klapband. Hierdoor belandde de vrachtwagen, die geladen was met aarde, op zijn zijkant in de gracht.
      A truck got a flat tyre on the E40 between Beernem and Aalter around 7 o'clock in the morning. This caused the truck, which was loaded with earth, to end up on its side in the ditch.
    Synonyms: gleuf, greppel, geul, rui, sloot

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: grag
  • English: gracht
  • German: Gracht
  • Papiamentu: gracht (dated)
  • West Frisian: gracht

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gracht n (plural grachten, diminutive grachtje n)

  1. (obsolete) grave

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz.

Noun

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gracht m or f or n

  1. (neuter) grave
  2. ditch, canal, dug watercourse
  3. groove

Inflection

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Strong masculine noun
singular plural
nominative gracht grachte
accusative gracht grachte
genitive grachts grachte
dative grachte grachten
Strong feminine noun
singular plural
nominative gracht grachte
accusative gracht grachte
genitive gracht, grachte grachte
dative gracht, grachte grachten
Strong neuter noun
singular plural
nominative gracht gracht, grachte
accusative gracht gracht, grachte
genitive grachts grachte
dative grachte grachten


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West Frisian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch gracht.

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gracht c (plural grachten, diminutive grachtsje)

  1. (rare) alternative form of grêft