How to Say "Bus" in Dutch - How To Say Guide

bus

/bʏs/masculine

The English word "bus" is bus in Dutch. Wiktionary also lists autobus and stadsbus.

Meaning: vehicle (noun)

Ways to say it

While bus is the standard everyday term, autobus is a more formal or technical term for the same vehicle.

In Suriname, the word for bus is bus.

The plural form of bus is bussen.

/bʏs/

In Dutch, the word bus is a doublet of the word buk, meaning a shotgun, which stems from the same ancient Germanic root.
Dutch uses the same word bus for the vehicle as it does for a 'bus' in computing, such as a data bus.
The word bus is a linguistic double agent. Depending on the context, it can refer to a public vehicle or a small box, as both meanings share the same spelling.

Ik nam bus 61.
I took the number 61 bus.
This sentence shows how to refer to a specific bus number using bus.
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De bus is vol.
The bus is full.
This sentence describes the state of a bus.
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Ik zag de bus.
I saw the bus.
This sentence describes seeing a bus.
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Ik neem de bus naar het centrum.
I am taking the bus to the city center.
De autobus vertrekt om 9 uur 's ochtends.
The bus departs at 9 o'clock in the morning.
We nemen de bus naar het strand.
We are taking the bus to the beach.
Laten we het busje nemen, het is sneller.
Let's take the minibus, it's faster.
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Lucas and Emma are waiting at a bus stop.

Sources

Wiktionary, “bus” translations and entries bus, autobus, stadsbus, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
Word origins: Wiktionary entries autobus, bus, stadsbus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.

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