verdiepen
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ipən
Verb
verdiepen
- (transitive) to deepen
- Het kanaal zal verdiept moeten worden om vrachtschepen door te kunnen laten.
- The canal will have to be deepened to allow cargo ships to pass through.
- (reflexive, verdiepen in) to study more thoroughly, to devote oneself (mentally) to
- Ik verdiepte mij de afgelopen jaren in de geschiedenis van mijn geboortedorp.
- During the last few years I devoted myself to studying the history of my native village.
Inflection
| Inflection of verdiepen (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verdiepen | |||
| past singular | verdiepte | |||
| past participle | verdiept | |||
| infinitive | verdiepen | |||
| gerund | verdiepen n | |||
| verbal noun | verdieping | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | verdiep | verdiepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | verdiept | verdiepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | verdiept | verdiepte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | verdiept | verdiepte | ||
| 3rd person singular | verdiept | verdiepte | ||
| plural | verdiepen | verdiepten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | verdiepe | verdiepte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | verdiepen | verdiepten | ||
| imperative sing. | verdiep | |||
| imperative plur.1 | verdiept | |||
| participles | verdiepend | verdiept | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
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