begaan
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch begaen. Equivalent to be- + gaan.
Verb edit
begaan
- (transitive) to walk upon, to tread on
- Vanaf morgen kunnen ze de steigers begaan.
- They will be able to walk on the piers from tomorrow on.
- (transitive, by extension) to move upon, to travel on
- De wegen hier zijn erg moeilijk te begaan.
- The roads over here are very difficult to travel upon.
- (transitive) to commit (e.g. a misdeed)
- Wie van jullie heeft deze moord begaan?
- Which one of you has committed this murder?
- (transitive, mostly with laten) to do, to act as one wills
Inflection edit
| Inflection of begaan (strong class 7, irregular, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | begaan | |||
| past singular | beging | |||
| past participle | begaan | |||
| infinitive | begaan | |||
| gerund | begaan n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | bega | beging | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | begaat | beging | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | begaat | beging | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | begaat | begingt | ||
| 3rd person singular | begaat | beging | ||
| plural | begaan | begingen | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | bega | beginge | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | begaan | begingen | ||
| imperative sing. | bega | |||
| imperative plur.1 | begaat | |||
| participles | begaand | begaan | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: begaan
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
begaan
- past participle of begaan
Inflection edit
| Inflection of begaan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | begaan | |||
| inflected | begane | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | begaan | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | begane | ||
| n. sing. | begaan | |||
| plural | begane | |||
| definite | begane | |||
| partitive | begaans | |||
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan, from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
begaan
- began
- 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:
- Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,
- He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110