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Een mobiel. — A cell phone.
 
Een mobiel. — A mobile.

Etymology

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From Middle French mobile, from Latin mōbilis (easy to be moved, moveable), from moveō (move).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /moːˈbil/
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  • Hyphenation: mo‧biel
  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective

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mobiel (comparative mobieler, superlative mobielst)

  1. mobile

Declension

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Declension of mobiel
uninflected mobiel
inflected mobiele
comparative mobieler
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mobiel mobieler het mobielst
het mobielste
indefinite m./f. sing. mobiele mobielere mobielste
n. sing. mobiel mobieler mobielste
plural mobiele mobielere mobielste
definite mobiele mobielere mobielste
partitive mobiels mobielers

Noun

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mobiel m (plural mobielen, diminutive mobieltje n)

  1. (Netherlands, usually in the diminutive) Ellipsis of mobiele telefoon; a mobile phone, cellphone, mobile
    Synonyms: gsm (Belgium), cell (Suriname), zaktelefoon (dated)
  2. a mobile (kinetic arrangement)