knabbelen

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Dutch

Etymology

Compare German knabbern (“to nibble”). Both could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”),[1] or imitative.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈknɑ.bə.lə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: knab‧be‧len
  • Rhymes: -ɑbələn

Verb

knabbelen

  1. (intransitive) to nibble
    De eekhoorn knabbelde op een nootje.
    The squirrel was nibbling on a nut.

Conjugation

Conjugation of knabbelen (weak)
infinitive knabbelen
past singular knabbelde
past participle geknabbeld
infinitive knabbelen
gerund knabbelen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular knabbel knabbelde
2nd person sing. (jij) knabbelt, knabbel2 knabbelde
2nd person sing. (u) knabbelt knabbelde
2nd person sing. (gij) knabbelt knabbelde
3rd person singular knabbelt knabbelde
plural knabbelen knabbelden
subjunctive sing.1 knabbele knabbelde
subjunctive plur.1 knabbelen knabbelden
imperative sing. knabbel
imperative plur.1 knabbelt
participles knabbelend geknabbeld
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1022”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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