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Appendix 2<br />

Proper nouns<br />

400<br />

Provincial capitals Inhabitant Adjective<br />

Haarlem Haarlemmer Haarlems14 ’s-Gravenhage,<br />

Den Haag<br />

Hagenaar Haags<br />

Middelburg Middelburger Middelburgs<br />

’s-Hertogenbosch, Bosschenaar<br />

Den Bosch<br />

Bosch (Bossche)<br />

Maastricht Maastrichtenaar Maastrichts<br />

Arnhem Arnhemmer Arnhems<br />

Utrecht Utrechter12 Utrechts<br />

Zwolle Zwollenaar Zwols<br />

Assen Assenaar Assens<br />

Groningen Groninger Gronings14 Leeuwarden Leeuwarder Leeuwardens14 Lelystad Lelystatter Lelystads<br />

Note: The towns Leiden and Gouda and the region Twente have their<br />

own irregular adjectival forms: Leids, Gouds, Twents. Towns ending in<br />

-dam take the stress on -dam, e.g. Amsterdam, Edam etc. The inhabitant<br />

is an Amsterdammer etc. The town of Breda also takes the stress on the<br />

final syllable.<br />

Belgian provinces Inhabitant (female) Adjective<br />

West-Vlaanderen W. Flanders West-Vlaming<br />

(West-Vlaamse)<br />

West-Vlaams<br />

Oost-Vlaanderen E. Flanders Oost-Vlaming<br />

(Oost-Vlaamse)<br />

Oost-Vlaams<br />

Antwerpen Antwerp Antwerpenaar<br />

(Antwerpse)<br />

Antwerps<br />

Brabant Brabander<br />

(Brabantse)<br />

Brabants<br />

Limburg Limburger<br />

(Limburgse)<br />

Limburgs<br />

Luik Liège15 Luikenaar (Luikse) Luiks<br />

Namen Namur15 Namenaar (Naamse) Naams<br />

14 In some standard contexts an adjectival form in -er is used, e.g. Groninger koek,<br />

Haarlemmer olie, Leeuwarder Courant.<br />

15 All French-speaking provinces.

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