aanschouwen

looks over / beholds / contemplates (formal)

/aːnˈsxʌut/verb

How it is spelled and how it sounds

The trigraph 'sch' is pronounced as /sx/ (an 's' followed by a guttural 'ch'), and 'ouw' represents the diphthong /ɑu̯/.

beschouwento consider / viewschouwburgtheaterwaarschuwento warn

In connected speech

In connected speech, the final /t/ of 'aanschouwt' is often dropped before words starting with a consonant, or voiced to [d] before a vowel-initial enclitic like 'ie' (aanschouwt-ie).

In the lessons (1 sentence)

s2-les-11 · 31Martin aanschouwt de jurk.Martin looks the dress over.Open in lesson ↗