de vindplaats?

[Fria]

I know it can be translated as: •the location; the site; the place where something is found (http://www.interglot.com), but can it also be translated as: whereabouts? Dank je wel!

[andreengels]

Is there a specific (Dutch or English) sentence you have in mind?

[Fria]

There's no specific sentence; this word came up when Talencoach was showing us how Dutch combine 2 words to make a new one, similar to what Germans do: vinden + de plaats = de vindplaats ... no sentence, sorry!

[Joke]

The Dutch word for whereabouts is verblijfplaats. According to my Van Dale dictionary, whereabouts is used in Dutch to, but I've never heard it.
Vindplaats is the place where something is found after searching.

Joke

[Fria]

Right, you explained it perfectly ... the Dutch words as well as their Slovene translations are similar, so I confused them, but now I know,
verblijfplaats = nahajališče
vindplaats = najdišče
^^ lol, I'm not trying to teach u Slovene, just wanted to show how similar they look

[Quetzal]

The Dutch word for whereabouts is verblijfplaats. According to my Van Dale dictionary, whereabouts is used in Dutch to, but I've never heard it.
Vindplaats is the place where something is found after searching.

Joke

"Whereabouts" is sometimes used in a sports context - the system forcing athletes to register where they'll be in the next few months so they can be tested unexpectedly for illegal substances.

Never heard it in Dutch outside that context either, though, and even that is recent enough that I'm surprised it'd already be in Van Dale.

[Fria]

Oh, I'm not a sports fan, so I'm not familiar to this ^^ ... and I thought in other langs it's more general, like ''whereabouts'' of a criminal police is chasing, that can be used daily in newspapers' pages reserved for ''overnight crime''.