vlijen

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vliën (“to arrange, to organize, to give something its place”), from Proto-West Germanic *flīhan, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

vlijen

  1. (transitive) to lay, to place
  2. (with reflexive pronoun) to lie down, to sit down
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to make to size, to make (something) fit

Conjugation

Conjugation of vlijen (weak)
infinitive vlijen
past singular vlijde
past participle gevlijd
infinitive vlijen
gerund vlijen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular vlij vlijde
2nd person sing. (jij) vlijt, vlij2 vlijde
2nd person sing. (u) vlijt vlijde
2nd person sing. (gij) vlijt vlijde
3rd person singular vlijt vlijde
plural vlijen vlijden
subjunctive sing.1 vlije vlijde
subjunctive plur.1 vlijen vlijden
imperative sing. vlij
imperative plur.1 vlijt
participles vlijend gevlijd
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Derived terms

References

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