Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek (ANW)

What it actually is

The Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal's dictionary of Dutch since 1970, built on a purpose-made corpus of over 100 million words and covering the Netherlands, Flanders, Suriname and the Caribbean. Entries carry real usage evidence, combinations and register labels — the detail you want once you are writing Dutch rather than just reading it. Free and updated daily, with no printed parent edition. It is a research dictionary, so entries are dense and coverage is still incomplete.

What it covers

• Vocabulary
• Reading
• Writing

Listed for

• Dutch

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