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rui

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nounfemininemasculine
  1. moat, canalin a city
  2. creek, ditch

Forms

noun

pluralruien
diminutive neuterruitje
diminutive neuterruiken

Other ways to say it

  • beekbrook, creek (running waterway smaller than a river)
  • grachtcanal (in a city, with houses on each side); ditch, trench (in the countryside, referring to both those that contain water and those that are dry)
  • slootditch, trench
  • vlietbody of moving water; stream, river, creek

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