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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
beenden
- inflection of benen:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
Derived terms
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From be- + enden.
Pronunciation
Verb
beenden (weak, third-person singular present beendet, past tense beendete, past participle beendet, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to finish, to complete, to (bring/put to an) end
Die Ankündigung beendete die Spekulationen über die Zukunft des Unternehmens.- The announcement put an end to speculation about the company's future.
- to terminate
- (computing) to exit
Conjugation
Conjugation of
beenden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
beenden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “beenden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “beenden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “beenden” in Duden online
- “beenden” in OpenThesaurus.de