afleverings

Aflevering is a Dutch noun with two main senses. In media and culture, it denotes a single installment of a series, such as a television show, radio program, podcast, or other serialized content. In logistics and general prose, it can also mean delivery or dispatch of goods, though in everyday use this sense is typically expressed with other terms such as levering or aflevering in a broader context.

The standard plural form in Dutch is afleveringen. The form afleverings is not common in contemporary standard Dutch and is generally regarded as nonstandard or archaic. It may appear in older texts or as part of specific compound nouns where the root aflevering acts as a stem, but it is not the normal plural for referring to multiple episodes in modern usage. When discussing delivery-related meanings, Dutch tends to use accompanied terms like aflevering in compounds such as afleveringsdatum or afleveringspostcode only in certain stylistic contexts, and such formations are less common than simpler phrasing.

In everyday usage, aflevering is most closely associated with audio-visual content, with phrases like “de eerste aflevering van de serie” or “de volgende aflevering wordt maandag uitgezonden.” The term is widely used in Dutch-language media, guidebooks, and synopses to label individual parts of a longer sequence. The cognate in Afrikaans is aflewering for delivery, reflecting a common Germanic root, though spelling and usage differ between the languages.