beslaan
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch beslaen. Equivalent to be- + slaan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈslaːn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: be‧slaan
- Rhymes: -aːn
Verb
beslaan
- (transitive) to cover, occupy
- Noord-Brabant beslaat een gebied van 4919 vierkante kilometer.
- North Brabant covers an area of 4919 square kilometers.
- (transitive) to surround, envelop
- (intransitive) to fog up
- De ruiten besloegen waardoor ik niets meer kon zien.
- The windows fogged up so that I could not see anything anymore.
- (transitive) to shoe (a horse with horseshoes)
Inflection
| Inflection of beslaan (strong class 6, irregular, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | beslaan | |||
| past singular | besloeg | |||
| past participle | beslagen | |||
| infinitive | beslaan | |||
| gerund | beslaan n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | besla | besloeg | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | beslaat | besloeg | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | beslaat | besloeg | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | beslaat | besloegt | ||
| 3rd person singular | beslaat | besloeg | ||
| plural | beslaan | besloegen | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | besla | besloege | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | beslaan | besloegen | ||
| imperative sing. | besla | |||
| imperative plur.1 | beslaat | |||
| participles | beslaand | beslagen | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Descendants
- Negerhollands: beslae
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