versjteren

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Dutch

Etymology

From Yiddish פֿערשטערען (fershteren, to spoil someone's fun), from German verstören (to disrupt).[1] Doublet of verstoren.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vərˈʃteː.rə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: ver‧sjte‧ren

Verb

versjteren

  1. (informal, transitive) to mess up, screw up (intentionally disrupt)
    Er zijn altijd mensen die het versjteren voor anderen.
    There are always people who try to ruin things for others.
    • 2024 December 25, Sheila Sitalsing, “Desi Bouterse (1945-2024): charismatisch charmeur, president, couppleger en moordenaar”, in Volkskrant, archived from the original on 26 December 2024:
      Het strafproces wegens de Decembermoorden heeft hij geprobeerd te versjteren door een amnestiewet door te voeren, wat tot grote vertraging heeft geleid.
      He tried to mess up the trial for the December murders by introducing an amnesty law, which caused great delay.

Conjugation

Conjugation of versjteren (weak, prefixed)
infinitive versjteren
past singular versjteerde
past participle versjteerd
infinitive versjteren
gerund versjteren n
present tense past tense
1st person singular versjteer versjteerde
2nd person sing. (jij) versjteert, versjteer2 versjteerde
2nd person sing. (u) versjteert versjteerde
2nd person sing. (gij) versjteert versjteerde
3rd person singular versjteert versjteerde
plural versjteren versjteerden
subjunctive sing.1 versjtere versjteerde
subjunctive plur.1 versjteren versjteerden
imperative sing. versjteer
imperative plur.1 versjteert
participles versjterend versjteerd
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “versjteren”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute