eisen

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Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛi̯sə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: ei‧sen
  • Rhymes: -ɛi̯sən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch eischen, from Old Dutch *eiskon, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn.

Verb

eisen

  1. (transitive) to demand
  2. (transitive) to claim
    De ramp eiste het leven van 155 personen.
    The disaster claimed the lives of 155 individuals.
  3. (transitive) to require
Inflection
Inflection of eisen (weak)
infinitive eisen
past singular eiste
past participle geëist
infinitive eisen
gerund eisen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular eis eiste
2nd person sing. (jij) eist eiste
2nd person sing. (u) eist eiste
2nd person sing. (gij) eist eiste
3rd person singular eist eiste
plural eisen eisten
subjunctive sing.1 eise eiste
subjunctive plur.1 eisen eisten
imperative sing. eis
imperative plur.1 eist
participles eisend geëist
1) Archaic.
Synonyms

(require):

Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

eisen

  1. plural of eis

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Eis +‎ -en

Verb

eisen (weak, third-person singular present eist, past tense eiste, past participle geeist, auxiliary haben)

  1. to freeze
Conjugation
Related terms

Etymology 2

Eisen +‎ -en

Adjective

eisen (strong nominative masculine singular eisener, not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) of iron
    Synonym: eisern
Declension

Further reading

  • eisen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • eisen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • eisen” in Duden online
  • eisen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Japanese

Romanization

eisen

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えいせん

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High German īsenīn, from Old High German īsīn; see Eisen. Cognate with German eisen, eisern.

Adjective

eisen (masculine eisenen, neuter eisent, not comparable)

  1. of iron
Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle High German and Old High German unsar, from Proto-West Germanic *unsar.

Pronoun

eisen

  1. first-person plural possessive, masculine object, nominative: our
  2. first-person plural possessive, masculine object, accusative: our
  3. first-person plural possessive, plural object, dative: to our
Declension

Welsh

Noun

eisen f

  1. singulative of ais

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
eisen unchanged unchanged heisen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.