saam

See also: Saam and -saam

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch saam, from samen, from Middle Dutch tsamen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑːm/

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Adverb

saam

1. together

Dutch

Etymology

Apocope of samen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːm/

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• Hyphenation: saam
• Rhymes: -aːm

Adverb

saam

1. (often informal, sometimes literary) together
   • 1960 or 1961, Els Kloek, unnamed poem, quoted in Liesbeth Wytzes, "'Ik ben 58 en ik heb meer haast dan ooit'", Elsevier, 2011 June 18, page 28.

     Zie je daar de maan/’t is tijd om naar bed te gaan/kom, dan gaan we saam.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• saamhorig
• saampjes