onderbouw

Dutch

Etymology

onder- +‎ bouw

Pronunciation
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  • Hyphenation: on‧der‧bouw

Noun

onderbouw m (plural onderbouwen, diminutive onderbouwtje n)

  1. the foundational part of a construction (e.g. a building) which serves to support that which has been built upon it; as in infrastructure
  2. (education) the lower-level classes of a school, e.g. the 1st and 2nd grades of grammar school in the Netherlands, or the first few years of secondary school in both the Netherlands and Flanders

Antonyms

Verb

onderbouw

  1. inflection of onderbouwen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative
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