hopen

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦoː.pə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ho‧pen
• Rhymes: -oːpən

From Middle Dutch hōpen, from Old Dutch hopon, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn.

hopen

1. to hope for, to wish for

   We hoopten op goed weer. — We were hoping for good weather.

• hopelijk
• verhopen
• wanhopen

• Afrikaans: hoop
• Jersey Dutch: hôpe
• Negerhollands: hoop

From Middle Dutch hôpen, from Old Dutch hōpon, from Proto-West Germanic *haupōn, from Proto-Germanic *haupōną (“to heap, heap up”), equivalent to hoop +‎ -en. Cognate with Old High German houfōn, Middle Low German hôpen, hȫpen, Old English hēapian.

hopen

1. to heap, pile up

• opeenhopen
• ophopen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hopen

1. plural of hoop

From Old Dutch hopon, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn.

hōpen

1. To hope
2. To expect.

• Dutch: hopen
• Limburgish: haope

From hôop +‎ -en.

hôpen

1. To heap, to pile up in a heap.

• Dutch: hopen
• Limburgish: houpe, höjpe

• “hopen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “hopen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hopen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hopen (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III

hopen m

1. definite singular of hop

hopen m

1. definite singular of hop

hopen

1. only used in se hopen, third-person plural present subjunctive of hoparse
2. only used in se ... hopen, syntactic variant of hópense, third-person plural imperative of hoparse

hopen

1. definite singular of hop