Example: Ik kijk uit naar mijn verjaardag volgend weekend.
Definition
"Uitkijken naar" means to eagerly anticipate or look forward to a future event or moment with positive expectation. It expresses the feeling of excitement or hopefulness about something that will happen, as in "Ik kijk uit naar mijn verjaardag volgend weekend."
The phrase "uitkijken naar" originates from Dutch, where "uitkijken" means to look out or watch carefully, and "naar" means towards. Together, they figuratively express the act of looking forward or anticipating something ahead in time. Did you know? The literal meaning involves physically looking outwards, which evolved into the figurative sense of eager expectation.
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"Uitkijken naar" appears in the Vocaplus list "Dutch - General - Idioms and Proverbs - (A2) - set 1", containing 106 commonly used expressions.
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