Dutch form of United States. It is literally a direct translation of the country's name, since it consists of the Dutch adjective verenigde meaning "united" combined with the Dutch noun staten meaning "states".Note: the official name of the country is United States of America, which translates to Dutch as Verenigde Staten van Amerika. The country is never called that in Dutch, however. It is only ever called Amerika, Verenigde Staten and VS (pronounced as vay-es). The latter is an abbreviation of Verenigde Staten, which makes it equivalent to US, the English abbreviation of United States. Please note that VSA (which would be equivalent to USA) is hardly ever used, if at all. It is a technically correct abbreviation, but it just never became mainstream.- https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verenigde_Staten (in Dutch) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verenigde_Staten (in English) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verenigde#Adjective (in English) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staten#Dutch (in English)(Information from name #321097 originally submitted by user Lucille)
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Note: the official name of the country is United States of America, which translates to Dutch as Verenigde Staten van Amerika. The country is never called that in Dutch, however. It is only ever called Amerika, Verenigde Staten and VS (pronounced as vay-es). The latter is an abbreviation of Verenigde Staten, which makes it equivalent to US, the English abbreviation of United States. Please note that VSA (which would be equivalent to USA) is hardly ever used, if at all. It is a technically correct abbreviation, but it just never became mainstream.
- https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verenigde_Staten (in Dutch)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verenigde_Staten (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verenigde#Adjective (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staten#Dutch (in English)
(Information from name #321097 originally submitted by user Lucille)