begraven

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəˈɣraːvə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: be‧gra‧ven
  • Rhymes: -aːvən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch begrāven, from Old Dutch bigravan, from Proto-Germanic *bigrabaną. Equivalent to be- +‎ graven.

Verb

begraven

  1. (transitive) to bury
    De hond begroef zijn bot net waar zijn voorganger begraven was.
    The dog buried his bone precisely where his predecessor was buried.
Conjugation
Conjugation of begraven (strong class 6, prefixed)
infinitive begraven
past singular begroef
past participle begraven
infinitive begraven
gerund begraven n
present tense past tense
1st person singular begraaf begroef
2nd person sing. (jij) begraaft, begraaf2 begroef
2nd person sing. (u) begraaft begroef
2nd person sing. (gij) begraaft begroeft
3rd person singular begraaft begroef
plural begraven begroeven
subjunctive sing.1 begrave begroeve
subjunctive plur.1 begraven begroeven
imperative sing. begraaf
imperative plur.1 begraaft
participles begravend begraven
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

begraven

  1. past participle of begraven
Declension
Declension of begraven
uninflected begraven
inflected begraven
positive
predicative/adverbial begraven
indefinite m./f. sing. begraven
n. sing. begraven
plural begraven
definite begraven
partitive begravens

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German begraven, from Old Saxon bigravan, from Proto-Germanic *bigrabaną, equivalent to be- +‎ graven.

Pronunciation

Verb

begraven (third-person singular simple present begraavt, past tense begroov, past participle begraven, auxiliary verb wesen)

  1. to bury
    De dode Katt worr in'n Achtergoorn begraven dörch de hele Familie
    The dead cat was buried in the back garden by the whole family

Conjugation

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch bigravan, from Proto-Germanic *bigrabaną. Equivalent to be- +‎ grāven.

Verb

begrāven

  1. to bury
  2. to delimit (land) with a ditch
  3. to fortify

Inflection

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Swedish

Participle

begraven

  1. past participle of begrava

Adjective

begraven

  1. buried, interred
    Här ligger en hund begraven
    There's something fishy here

Declension

Inflection of begraven
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular begraven
neuter singular begravet
plural begravna
masculine plural2 begravne
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 begravne
all begravna

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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