hemelen
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦeː.mə.lə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: he‧me‧len
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch hêmelen. The word is probably related to heimelijk (“secret”), and in early modern Dutch it still meant "to clean up, to tidy". Semantic influence from hemel (“heaven”) likely shifted its meaning from this towards "to make nice, to make beautiful" and then to the current sense.
Inflection
| Inflection of hemelen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | hemelen | |||
| past singular | hemelde | |||
| past participle | gehemeld | |||
| infinitive | hemelen | |||
| gerund | hemelen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | hemel | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 3rd person singular | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| plural | hemelen | hemelden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | hemele | hemelde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | hemelen | hemelden | ||
| imperative sing. | hemel | |||
| imperative plur.1 | hemelt | |||
| participles | hemelend | gehemeld | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Inflection
| Inflection of hemelen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | hemelen | |||
| past singular | hemelde | |||
| past participle | gehemeld | |||
| infinitive | hemelen | |||
| gerund | hemelen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | hemel | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| 3rd person singular | hemelt | hemelde | ||
| plural | hemelen | hemelden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | hemele | hemelde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | hemelen | hemelden | ||
| imperative sing. | hemel | |||
| imperative plur.1 | hemelt | |||
| participles | hemelend | gehemeld | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
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