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"came" in Dutch

gekomen

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The Dutch translation for “came” is gekomen.

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came

kwamen
came (past tense; singular)

kwam

Examples of "came" in use

There are 8 examples of the Dutch word for "came" being used:
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Why didn’t you come by bus?

Waarom ben je niet met de bus gekomen?
Did you come the day before yesterday?

Ben je eergisteren gekomen?
Have you not come into a warm room and don’t you have a company from which you can learn something?

Ben je niet in een warme kamer gekomen en heb je niet een gezelschap, waarvan je nog wat kunt leren?
has joined

is erbij gekomen
But the poor duckling that had hatched last and looked so ugly was bitten, bumped and fooled by both the ducks and the chickens.

Maar het arme eendje, dat het laatst uit het ei gekomen was en er zo lelijk uitzag, werd gebeten, gestoten en voor de gek gehouden, en dat zowel door de eenden als door de kippen.
It doesn’t matter to be hatched by a duck, as long as you came out of a swan’s egg!

Het doet er niet toe, door een eend uitgebroed te worden, als men maar uit een zwanenei gekomen is!
It was partly due to her efforts that we arrived at this result.

Mede door haar inzet zijn we tot dit resultaat gekomen.
“It’s too big!” they all said, and the turkey that had come into the world with spurs and therefore thought he was emperor, blew himself up like a ship with full sails and came up to him; then he clucked and his head turned bright red.

“Het is te groot!” zeiden allen, en de kalkoense haan, die met sporen ter wereld gekomen was en daarom dacht, dat hij keizer was, blies zich op als een schip met volle zeilen en kwam op hem af; toen klokte hij en werd zijn kop vuurrood.

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But the poor duckling that had hatched last and looked so ugly was bitten, bumped and fooled by both the ducks and the chickens.,
Have you not come into a warm room and don’t you have a company from which you can learn something?,
It doesn’t matter to be hatched by a duck, as long as you came out of a swan’s egg!,
Why didn’t you come by bus?,
“It’s too big!” they all said, and the turkey that had come into the world with spurs and therefore thought he was emperor, blew himself up like a ship with full sails and came up to him; then he clucked and his head turned bright red.
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