verfouteren
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of verbeteren + fout. First attested around 2000.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]verfouteren
- (informal) to make a mistake in the belief that one is correcting mistakes, to hypercorrect
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of verfouteren (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verfouteren | |||
| past singular | verfouterde | |||
| past participle | verfouterd | |||
| infinitive | verfouteren | |||
| gerund | verfouteren n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | verfouter | verfouterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | verfoutert, verfouter2 | verfouterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | verfoutert | verfouterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | verfoutert | verfouterde | ||
| 3rd person singular | verfoutert | verfouterde | ||
| plural | verfouteren | verfouterden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | verfoutere | verfouterde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | verfouteren | verfouterden | ||
| imperative sing. | verfouter | |||
| imperative plur.1 | verfoutert | |||
| participles | verfouterend | verfouterd | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||