dwalen

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʋaːlə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: dwa‧len
  • Rhymes: -aːlən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dwalen, from Old Dutch *dwalon, from Proto-West Germanic *dwalōn, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną. Cognate with English dwale.

Verb

dwalen

  1. (intransitive) to stray, wander
  2. (intransitive) to err
Inflection
Inflection of dwalen (weak)
infinitive dwalen
past singular dwaalde
past participle gedwaald
infinitive dwalen
gerund dwalen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular dwaal dwaalde
2nd person sing. (jij) dwaalt dwaalde
2nd person sing. (u) dwaalt dwaalde
2nd person sing. (gij) dwaalt dwaalde
3rd person singular dwaalt dwaalde
plural dwalen dwaalden
subjunctive sing.1 dwale dwaalde
subjunctive plur.1 dwalen dwaalden
imperative sing. dwaal
imperative plur.1 dwaalt
participles dwalend gedwaald
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: dwaal
  • Negerhollands: dwael
  • → Papiamentu: dualu, dualdu

Etymology 2

Noun

dwalen

  1. plural of dwaal

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English dwalian, from Proto-West Germanic *dwalōn, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną; equivalent to dwale +‎ -en (“infinitival suffix”).

Pronunciation

Verb

dwalen (rare)

  1. to poison
  2. to err

Conjugation

Conjugation of dwalen (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) dwalen, dwale
present tense past tense
1st-person singular dwale dwaled
2nd-person singular dwalest dwaledest
3rd-person singular dwaleth dwaled
subjunctive singular dwale
imperative singular —
plural1 dwalen, dwale dwaleden, dwalede
imperative plural dwaleth, dwale —
participles dwalynge, dwalende dwaled, ydwaled

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

References

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