flemish

«flemish» in Mova's school dictionary: to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (Flemish); noun (Flemish — the language; the Flemish — the people)

meaning for a pupil

1) Flemish means to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, or its people. tree →

2) Flemish is the name for the Dutch spoken in Belgium. tree →

3) Flemish art means paintings by artists from Flanders, like Bruegel and Van Eyck. tree →

sense in the lessons

Geography (Belgium has Flemish-, French- and German-speaking areas), history and art lessons (Flemish painters, Flemish weavers who came to England). Phrases: Flemish painters, Flemish speakers.

examples

• In Belgium, Flemish is spoken in the north. tree →
• Bruegel was a Flemish painter. tree →
• The museum has Flemish paintings of village life. tree →
• Flemish weavers came to England in the Middle Ages. tree →
• Flemish is very close to the Dutch of the Netherlands. tree →
• Brussels has signs in French and Flemish. tree →

note

Always written with a capital F (it is a name for a people and place). Flemish and Dutch are essentially the same language with local differences. Not to be confused with «phlegm» or «flamingo».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flemish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.