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Bende
Bende
See also: bende
English
Proper noun
Bende
- An ethno-linguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.
Anagrams
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bende
See also: Bende
Dutch
Noun
bende f (plural bendes or benden, diminutive bendetje n)
- gang, squad
- mess as in: a disagreeable mixture of a large quantity of objects in disorder resulting from people misbehaving or animals stampeding.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From bent gij, by analogy of other -de verb contractions. The personal agreement is ungrammatical in standard Dutch, and is based on contamination with ben jij.
Contraction
bende
Usage notes
The contraction is sometimes reinforced with an additional gij, giving bende gij.