bagatelliseren

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German bagatellisieren, or possibly a direct formation from bagatel +‎ -iseren.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːɣaːtɛliˈzeːrə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧tel‧li‧se‧ren
  • Rhymes: -eːrən

Verb

bagatelliseren

  1. (transitive) to trivialize, to play down
    De verdachte bagatelliseerde het gevaar dat had kunnen ontstaan toen hij een machinegeweermagazijn leegschoot op de openbare weg.
    The suspect trivialised the danger that could have arisen when he emptied the magazine of a machine gun on a public road.

Conjugation

Conjugation of bagatelliseren (weak)
infinitive bagatelliseren
past singular bagatelliseerde
past participle gebagatelliseerd
infinitive bagatelliseren
gerund bagatelliseren n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bagatelliseer bagatelliseerde
2nd person sing. (jij) bagatelliseert, bagatelliseer2 bagatelliseerde
2nd person sing. (u) bagatelliseert bagatelliseerde
2nd person sing. (gij) bagatelliseert bagatelliseerde
3rd person singular bagatelliseert bagatelliseerde
plural bagatelliseren bagatelliseerden
subjunctive sing.1 bagatellisere bagatelliseerde
subjunctive plur.1 bagatelliseren bagatelliseerden
imperative sing. bagatelliseer
imperative plur.1 bagatelliseert
participles bagatelliserend gebagatelliseerd
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: bagatelisá

References

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