vreten

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Dutch

Alternative forms

  • fretten (perhaps a Frisian borrowing)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvreːtə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: vre‧ten
  • Rhymes: -eːtən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vrēten, from Old Dutch *fretan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną. Corresponds to ver- +‎ eten and thus represents a doublet of vereten.

Verb

vreten

  1. (transitive) to eat savagely, stuff, hog, wolf
    Synonyms: eten, kanen, fretten (Brabantian)
Conjugation
Conjugation of vreten (strong class 5)
infinitive vreten
past singular vrat
past participle gevreten
infinitive vreten
gerund vreten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular vreet vrat
2nd person sing. (jij) vreet vrat
2nd person sing. (u) vreet vrat
2nd person sing. (gij) vreet vrat
3rd person singular vreet vrat
plural vreten vraten
subjunctive sing.1 vrete vrate
subjunctive plur.1 vreten vraten
imperative sing. vreet
imperative plur.1 vreet
participles vretend gevreten
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: vreet
  • Petjo: freten, vreten

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb vreten, by analogy with eten.

Noun

vreten n (uncountable)

  1. (slang) food
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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *fretan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan.

Verb

vrēten

  1. to eat savagely or greedily

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Verb

vreten

  1. (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of freten (“to eat”)

Swedish

Noun

vreten

  1. definite singular of vret
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