Mate

"Mate" in Dutch

gabber

(friend — see also friend)

gast

(trade assistant)

gezel

(of breeding animal: sexual partner)

kameraad

(friend — see also friend)

maat

(nautical: ship's officer on commercial vessel)

maat

(trade assistant)

maat(je)

(friend — see also friend)

makker

(friend — see also friend)

paringsgezel

(of breeding animal: sexual partner)

partner

(of breeding animal: sexual partner)

scheepsmaat

(nautical: ship's officer on commercial vessel)

koppelen

(arrange in matched pairs)

paren

(copulate)

paren

(pair in order to raise offspring)

paren

(arrange in matched pairs)

schaakmat spelen

(to put an opponent in checkmate)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.