Dutch language

How to pronounce accent in Dutch?

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Type Words
Synonyms emphasis
Type of grandness, importance
Has types stress, focus
Derivation accentuate


the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents.
Type Words
Synonyms accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress
Type of evince, show, express
Has types re-emphasise, re-emphasize, press home, set off, bear down, point up, play down, topicalize, underline, underscore, downplay, drive home, emphasise, emphasize, bring out, background, ram home
Type Words
Synonyms speech pattern
Type of pronunciation
Has types drawl
Derivation accentuate


he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent.
Type Words
Synonyms emphasis, stress
Type of prosody, inflection
Has types tonic accent, word accent, word stress, accentuation, sentence stress, pitch accent
Derivation accentual, accentuate
Type Words
Synonyms dialect, idiom
Type of non-standard speech
Has types patois, eye dialect
Derivation accentuate


he has a strong German accent.
Type Words
Synonyms accent mark
Type of diacritic, diacritical mark
Has types acute, acute accent, ague, grave, grave accent, stress mark
Derivation accentual, accentuate
Type Words
Synonyms accentuate, stress
Type of articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say, pronounce


In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word.