From terug (“back, backwards”) + deinzen (“to retreat, recoil”), from Middle Dutch deinzen, from Proto-Germanic *þansjaną, which itself could be related to the root of deinen (“to bob up and down”).
terugdeinzen
| Conjugation of terugdeinzen (weak, separable) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | terugdeinzen | |||
| past singular | deinsde terug | |||
| past participle | teruggedeinsd | |||
| infinitive | terugdeinzen | |||
| gerund | terugdeinzen n | |||
| main clause | subordinate clause | |||
| present tense | past tense | present tense | past tense | |
| 1st person singular | deins terug | deinsde terug | terugdeins | terugdeinsde |
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | deinst terug, deins terug2 | deinsde terug | terugdeinst | terugdeinsde |
| 2nd person sing. (u) | deinst terug | deinsde terug | terugdeinst | terugdeinsde |
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | deinst terug | deinsde terug | terugdeinst | terugdeinsde |
| 3rd person singular | deinst terug | deinsde terug | terugdeinst | terugdeinsde |
| plural | deinzen terug | deinsden terug | terugdeinzen | terugdeinsden |
| subjunctive sing.1 | deinze terug | deinsde terug | terugdeinze | terugdeinsde |
| subjunctive plur.1 | deinzen terug | deinsden terug | terugdeinzen | terugdeinsden |
| imperative sing. | deins terug | |||
| imperative plur.1 | deinst terug | |||
| participles | terugdeinzend | teruggedeinsd | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||