doen

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See also: dóen

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch doen, from Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

doen (present doen, present participle doenende, past participle gedoen)

  1. to do

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t.

Verb

doen

  1. (transitive) to do
  2. (transitive) to put
    Doe dat daar maar in.
    Just put it in there.
  3. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make; forms causative verbs
    Dat doet mij denken aan vorig jaar.
    That makes me think of last year; i.e. that reminds me of last year.
  4. (ditransitive, informal) to give, serve, bring
    Doe mij maar een baco. ― I'd like a rum and coke. (literally, “Bring me a rum and coke.”)
  5. (informal, transitive) to do, to have sex with someone
    Zou je haar doen?
    Would you do her?
  6. (with wat) to touch a nerve; to strike a chord in
    Het doet me wat.
    It strikes a chord in me.
  7. (with elkaar + indefinite pronoun, sometimes with postpositioned onder) to be different; to make a difference
    De beide camera's doen elkaar niet veel (onder).
    The two cameras aren’t much different .
  8. (informal, with an adjective) to behave or act in some way
    Doe maar gewoon.
    Just act normal.
  9. Used as the finite verb after the fronting of an infinitive.
    Werken deed ze niet meer.
    She didn't work anymore.
Inflection
Inflection of doen (irregular)
infinitive doen
past singular deed
past participle gedaan
infinitive doen
gerund doen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular doe deed
2nd person sing. (jij) doet deed
2nd person sing. (u) doet deed
2nd person sing. (gij) doet deedt
3rd person singular doet deed
plural doen deden
subjunctive sing.1 doe dede
subjunctive plur.1 doen deden
imperative sing. doe
imperative plur.1 doet
participles doend gedaan
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
adjectives
nouns
proverbs
verbs
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: doen
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dun
  • Jersey Dutch: dûn, dûne
  • Negerhollands: doe, du, due
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: doon
  • →? Aukan: du

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb doen.

Noun

doen n (uncountable)

  1. routine
    De mensen zijn uit hun doen, maar schikken zich wel.
    The people are outside of their routine, but do accommodate themselves.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Adverb

doen

  1. Obsolete form of toen.

Conjunction

doen

  1. Obsolete form of toen.

Galician

Verb

doen

  1. inflection of doar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
  2. third-person plural present indicative of doer

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

  • dinn (chiefly south-western dialects; remains common)
  • dunn (dated)

Etymology

From Middle High German duon, from Old High German duon, a northern variety of tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn. The phonetically regular form is dunn. The form doen seems to be a backformation from the past participle by analogy with verbs such as droen, schloen.

Pronunciation

Verb

doen (third-person singular present deet, preterite doung, past participle gedoen, past subjunctive déit or déing, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to do
  2. to make, cause

Usage notes

  • The verb is overall rare and widely replaced with maachen (even in many cases where German would use tun rather than machen).
  • The preterite doung is obsolete in general Luxembourgish, whereas the subjunctive déit (déing) still sees some usage as an alternative auxiliary for the conditional tense: ech déit soen (“I would say”) instead of ech géif soen, ech géing soen.

Conjugation

Irregular with past tense
infinitive doen
participle gedoen
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative 		past
indicative 		conditional imperative
1st singular doen doung déing —
2nd singular dees doungs déings do
3rd singular deet doung déing —
1st plural doen doungen déingen —
2nd plural dot doungt déingt dot
3rd plural doen doungen déingen —
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch duon.

Verb

doen

  1. to do
  2. to cause
  3. to put, to place
Inflection
Conjugation of doen (irregular)
infinitive doen
indicative present past
1st person singular doe dede
2nd person singular does dedes
3rd person singular doet dede
1st person plural doen daden
2nd person plural doet dadet
3rd person plural doen daden
subjunctive present past
1st person singular doe dade
2nd person singular does daets
3rd person singular doe dade
1st person plural doen daden
2nd person plural doet dadet
3rd person plural doen daden
imperative present
singular doe
plural doet
participle present past
doende gedaen
Descendants

Etymology 2

Adverb

doen

  1. Alternative form of doe

Conjunction

doen

  1. Alternative form of doe

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

doen m or n

  1. definite masculine singular of do

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

doen m or n

  1. definite masculine singular of do

Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

doen

  1. first/third-person plural conditional colloquial of dod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
doen ddoen noen unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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