Dutch · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "honderd" in Dutch?

Q: How do you pronounce honderd in Dutch?

honderd is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈɦɔndərt/. It means “hundred.” HON-durt — short o, unstressed second syllable, and the final d comes out as a t.

HON-durt — short o, unstressed second syllable, and the final d comes out as a t.

honderd /ˈɦɔndərt/

Front-stressed, HON-derd, with the second syllable almost swallowed. This matters for the compound numbers built on it — "tweehonderd," "driehonderd" — where the counting element takes the primary beat and "honderd" retreats to secondary.

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Sound it out

h Soft and voiced, with the vocal cords humming rather than a sharp exhale.

o Short and rounded, like British "on." Two consonants follow, which is what keeps the vowel short in Dutch spelling logic.

der A wholly unstressed syllable: schwa plus a very light r, often barely more than "-duh."

d (final) Devoiced to t at the end of the word. Add the plural-ish ending in "honderden" and the real d resurfaces, proving the underlying consonant.

Hear it in a sentence

Het kost honderd euro.

It costs a hundred euros.

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"Het kost honderd euro" needs no article before the number, and "euro" again stays singular. The verb "kost" is third-person of "kosten" and its final t bumps directly into the h of "honderd" — Dutch keeps both audible rather than blending them.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers reach for "hundred" and produce the wrong vowel in the first syllable — the "uh" of "hun" instead of a rounded short o. They also tend to end the word with a voiced d, following the spelling. Dutch final devoicing is not optional or regional; that d is a t every time it stands at the end of a word.