nooit
Britishinterjection
Etymology
Origin of nooit
from Afrikaans, literally: never
Example Sentences
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Maar”,—and here I sank my voice to a confidential whisper, to make the irrelevancy sound as like wit as possible,—“maar, U weet nooit hoe een koe een haas vangt!”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin
Then there were some plain and unornamental phrases such as “Men weet nooit hoe een koe eenen haas vangt”.—This was labelled ‘proverbial expression’, and was translated, happily enough, by “The unexpected often occurs.”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin
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