onderbouw

== Dutch == === Etymology === From onder- +‎ bouw. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: on‧der‧bouw === Noun === onderbouw m (plural onderbouwen, diminutive onderbouwtje n) the foundational part of a construction (e.g. a building) which serves to support that which has been built upon it; as in infrastructure (education) the lower-level classes of a school, e.g. the 1st and 2nd grades of grammar school in the Netherlands, or the first few years of secondary school in both the Netherlands and Flanders ==== Antonyms ==== bovenbouw ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: onderbouw === Verb === onderbouw inflection of onderbouwen: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Dutch onderbouw (“foundation (of construction or education)”). === Noun === onderbouw (plural onderbouw-onderbouw) (literally, architecture, civil engineering) foundation of building (figurative, politics) a political party wing organization, or a branch of a larger organization. === Further reading === “onderbouw”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016