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ouderlijke afstamming

English translation: parental descent


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Dutch term or phrase:ouderlijke afstamming
English translation:parental descent
Entered by: xxxjarry
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14:22 Aug 12, 2005
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Law/Patents - Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs
Dutch term or phrase: ouderlijke afstamming
rang: eerste kind.
status: ouderlijke afstamming.

Appears on a birth certificate.
katiebeb
Local time: 11:27
parental descent
Explanation:
me thinks
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xxxjarry
South Africa
Local time: 12:27
Grading comment
Thanks very much for your help!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6parental descentxxxjarry
3 +2parentage
Josephina Kooijman


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
parental descent


Explanation:
me thinks

xxxjarry
South Africa
Local time: 12:27
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks very much for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: since it follows the word status, this makes sense. meaning it 's person who descends from his parents, as opposed to adopted?
28 mins
  -> Thank you; my reasoning too.

agree  Dave Calderhead
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agree  Tina Vonhof
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agree  mariette
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agree  Lawyer-Linguist
3 hrs
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agree  Jacqueline van der Spek: you thinks ok
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
parentage


Explanation:
parentage, birth -- (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
Web Wordnet 2.0


    Reference: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.0?stage=1&wor...
Josephina Kooijman
Local time: 04:27
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Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Pierre Grabowski
3 mins

agree  Saskia Steur
9 mins

neutral  xxxjarry: I don't think so. I am of Dutch parentage, but I may have been an adopted child of those parents. The point here is that you are not adopted but descend from your parents. See writeaway's comment.
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