bagatelliseren
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German bagatellisieren, or possibly a direct formation from bagatel + -iseren.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bagatelliseren
- (transitive) to trivialize, to play down
- De verdachte bagatelliseerde het gevaar dat had kunnen ontstaan toen hij een machinegeweermagazijn leegschoot op de openbare weg.
- The suspect trivialised the danger that could have arisen when he emptied the magazine of a machine gun on a public road.
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of bagatelliseren (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bagatelliseren | |||
| past singular | bagatelliseerde | |||
| past participle | gebagatelliseerd | |||
| infinitive | bagatelliseren | |||
| gerund | bagatelliseren n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | bagatelliseer | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | bagatelliseert, bagatelliseer2 | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 3rd person singular | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| plural | bagatelliseren | bagatelliseerden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | bagatellisere | bagatelliseerde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | bagatelliseren | bagatelliseerden | ||
| imperative sing. | bagatelliseer | |||
| imperative plur.1 | bagatelliseert | |||
| participles | bagatelliserend | gebagatelliseerd | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Papiamentu: bagatelisá