bedienen

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bedienen. Equivalent to be- +‎ dienen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəˈdinə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: be‧die‧nen
  • Rhymes: -inən

Verb

bedienen

  1. (transitive) to be of assistance to, to serve
  2. (transitive) to serve (at a restaurant)
  3. (transitive) to operate (a device)
  4. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to administer the last sacraments to
  5. (reflexive, with prepositional object) to utilise, to make use

Conjugation

Conjugation of bedienen (weak, prefixed)
infinitive bedienen
past singular bediende
past participle bediend
infinitive bedienen
gerund bedienen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bedien bediende
2nd person sing. (jij) bedient, bedien2 bediende
2nd person sing. (u) bedient bediende
2nd person sing. (gij) bedient bediende
3rd person singular bedient bediende
plural bedienen bedienden
subjunctive sing.1 bediene bediende
subjunctive plur.1 bedienen bedienden
imperative sing. bedien
imperative plur.1 bedient
participles bedienend bediend
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: bedien

German

Etymology

From be- +‎ dienen.

Pronunciation

Verb

bedienen (weak, third-person singular present bedient, past tense bediente, past participle bedient, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to serve
  2. (transitive) to operate
  3. (transitive or intransitive, card games) to play a card according to the grouping of the first card of a trick; to follow suit
    Du musst Trumpf bedienen.
    You must follow suit and play trump.
  4. (reflexive) to help oneself (to); to make use of

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bedienen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • bedienen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • bedienen” in Duden online
  • bedienen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From be- +‎ dienen.

Verb

bedienen

  1. to serve, to be useful

Inflection

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Descendants

Further reading