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Dutch translation: Whodunit

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00:55 Oct 12, 2020
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English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

Example sentence(s):
  • A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. Alyssa Mackay
  • Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? Telegraph
  • While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. WH Smith
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Dutch translation:Whodunit
Definition:
Een whodunit of whodunnit (ontstaan uit het Engelse "Who has done it?") is een subgenre van detectiveverhalen, waarin de nadruk geheel ligt op het proberen te achterhalen wie de dader is van een moord of ander misdrijf.
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Thomas Veron [EI]
France
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Whodunit


Definition from Wikipedia:
Een whodunit of whodunnit (ontstaan uit het Engelse "Who has done it?") is een subgenre van detectiveverhalen, waarin de nadruk geheel ligt op het proberen te achterhalen wie de dader is van een moord of ander misdrijf.

Example sentence(s):
  • Bij het schrijven van haar whodunit Moord op de moestuin liet Nicolien Mizee zich inspireren door Agatha Christie. - VPRO  
  • Hij kwam er al snel achter dat het mysterie van Paaseiland een soort detective is, een wetenschappelijke whodunit. - De Correspondent  
Thomas Veron [EI]
France
Local time: 23:06
Native speaker of: Native in FlemishFlemish, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4

Votes in favor of/against selecting this as the best translation of the term asked
Yes  Jelle Devreese
10 days
Yes  Gerard de Noord: Door de Taalunie alleen met één n toegelaten: https://woordenlijst.org/#/?q=whodunit
12 days
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