verleppen
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibilities include:
- lap (“piece of cloth, rag”) + ver- -en (for which compare verflensen, which is possibly influenced by flens (“pancake, cloth”)), referring to the limpness of the leaves of a withered plant;
- ver- + leppen (“to sip, pout one's lips”), a verb derived from lip (“lip”), referring to the limpness of a lower lip.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]verleppen
- (intransitive) to wither, wilt
- Synonyms: verwelken, verflensen
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of verleppen (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verleppen | |||
| past singular | verlepte | |||
| past participle | verlept | |||
| infinitive | verleppen | |||
| gerund | verleppen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | verlep | verlepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | verlept, verlep2 | verlepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | verlept | verlepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | verlept | verlepte | ||
| 3rd person singular | verlept | verlepte | ||
| plural | verleppen | verlepten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | verleppe | verlepte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | verleppen | verlepten | ||
| imperative sing. | verlep | |||
| imperative plur.1 | verlept | |||
| participles | verleppend | verlept | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “verleppen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute