gevoel
feeling
/ɣəˈvul/noun
Word forms
- article: het gevoel (neuter)
- plural: gevoelens (feelings)
- diminutive: gevoeletje (little feeling)
How it is spelled and how it sounds
The unstressed prefix 'ge-' has a reduced schwa vowel /ə/, while the digraph 'oe' represents the high back vowel /u/ (like English 'oo' in 'boot').
voelento feeldoelgoal / targetstoelchair
In connected speech
In connected speech after a voiceless consonant, such as in 'het gevoel', the voiced fricative /v/ often devoiced and assimilates to a voiceless [f], sounding like [ət xəˈful].
In the lessons (1 sentence)
s2-les-11 · 46Een vreemd gevoel overheerst bij Xing.A strange feeling takes over in Xing.Open in lesson ↗
In the frequency dictionary
Core #432
Not yet marked known.