No. 575 in Dutch
punt
"Point" or "dot."
In a sentence
Het is belangrijk om je punt duidelijk te maken in een discussie.
It is important to make your point clear in a discussion.
Here, 'punt' is used to mean 'point' in the sense of an argument or idea being expressed.
De bal lag precies op de punt van de driehoek in de tekening.
The ball was exactly on the tip of the triangle in the drawing.
Here, 'punt' is used to mean 'tip' or 'vertex' in the context of a geometric figure.
Hij eindigde zijn artikel met een punt.
He ended his article with a period.
Here, 'punt' is used to mean 'period' (the punctuation mark) at the end of a sentence.
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