bemalen

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəˈmaː.lə(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: be‧ma‧len
  • Rhymes: -aːlən

Etymology 1

From be- +‎ malen (to grind).

Verb

bemalen

  1. (transitive) to drain (a polder, or other piece of land or body of water) by means of mills or pump houses
Inflection
Conjugation of bemalen (weak with strong past participle, prefixed)
infinitive bemalen
past singular bemaalde
past participle bemalen
infinitive bemalen
gerund bemalen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bemaal bemaalde
2nd person sing. (jij) bemaalt bemaalde
2nd person sing. (u) bemaalt bemaalde
2nd person sing. (gij) bemaalt bemaalde
3rd person singular bemaalt bemaalde
plural bemalen bemaalden
subjunctive sing.1 bemale bemaalde
subjunctive plur.1 bemalen bemaalden
imperative sing. bemaal
imperative plur.1 bemaalt
participles bemalend bemalen
1) Archaic.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From be- +‎ malen (to paint).

Verb

bemalen

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to paint, apply paint to
Inflection
Conjugation of bemalen (weak, prefixed)
infinitive bemalen
past singular bemaalde
past participle bemaald
infinitive bemalen
gerund bemalen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bemaal bemaalde
2nd person sing. (jij) bemaalt bemaalde
2nd person sing. (u) bemaalt bemaalde
2nd person sing. (gij) bemaalt bemaalde
3rd person singular bemaalt bemaalde
plural bemalen bemaalden
subjunctive sing.1 bemale bemaalde
subjunctive plur.1 bemalen bemaalden
imperative sing. bemaal
imperative plur.1 bemaalt
participles bemalend bemaald
1) Archaic.

German

Etymology

be- +‎ malen

Pronunciation

Verb

bemalen (weak, third-person singular present bemalt, past tense bemalte, past participle bemalt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to paint (to add paint to)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • bemalen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • bemalen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • bemalen” in Duden online