Het moment
Example: Op het moment dat ik arriveerde, begon het te regenen.
Definition
"Het moment" refers to a specific point in time when something happens or is observed. It denotes an exact or particular instant, often significant or important, such as in the phrase, 'At the moment I arrived, it started raining.'
Etymology
The phrase "het moment" comes from Dutch, where 'het' is the definite article meaning 'the,' and 'moment' is borrowed from Latin 'momentum,' meaning movement or a short period of time. Did you know that 'momentum' originally described a physical concept but evolved to mean a brief instant in everyday language?
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"Het moment" appears in the Vocaplus list "Dutch - General - (B2) - set 1", containing 111 commonly used words.
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