verslaan
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Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]verslaan (present verslaan, present participle verslaande, past participle verslaan)
- to defeat
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch verslaen. Equivalent to ver- + slaan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]verslaan
- (transitive) to defeat
- Het team wist hun tegenstanders te verslaan in de finale.
- The team managed to defeat their opponents in the final.
- (transitive) to report on, cover
- De journalist ging ter plaatse om live te verslaan wat er gebeurde.
- The journalist went to the scene to report on what was happening live.
- Hij verslaat alle belangrijke gebeurtenissen in zijn dagboek.
- He reports on all the important events in his diary.
- De verslaggever zal de wedstrijd vanavond op televisie verslaan
- The reporter will cover the match on television tonight.
- (transitive, dated, dialectal) to destroy, to fell
- (transitive, dated, dialectal) to beat to death; to kill
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of verslaan (strong class 6, irregular, prefixed) | ||||
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infinitive | verslaan | |||
past singular | versloeg | |||
past participle | verslagen | |||
infinitive | verslaan | |||
gerund | verslaan n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | versla | versloeg | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | verslaat, versla2 | versloeg | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | verslaat | versloeg | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | verslaat | versloegt | ||
3rd person singular | verslaat | versloeg | ||
plural | verslaan | versloegen | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | versla | versloege | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | verslaan | versloegen | ||
imperative sing. | versla | |||
imperative plur.1 | verslaat | |||
participles | verslaand | verslagen | ||
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: verslaan
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