hamsteren
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hamsteren
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Etymology edit
1916 or 1917. Borrowed from German hamstern, inspired by the way hamsters use their cheek pouches to keep food for later use. Older dictionaries tend to stress the secrecy or illegality of the act. Equivalent to hamster + -en.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hamsteren
- (transitive, intransitive) to hoard (e.g. food, supplies), typically for emergencies
- Italianen hamsteren pasta, Nederlanders wiet en Amerikanen machinegeweren.
- Italians hoard pasta, Dutch people [hoard] weed and Americans [hoard] machine guns.
- De winkel is vol hamsterende bejaarden.
- The shop is full of hoarding elderly people.
Inflection edit
| Inflection of hamsteren (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | hamsteren | |||
| past singular | hamsterde | |||
| past participle | gehamsterd | |||
| infinitive | hamsteren | |||
| gerund | hamsteren n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | hamster | hamsterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | hamstert | hamsterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | hamstert | hamsterde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | hamstert | hamsterde | ||
| 3rd person singular | hamstert | hamsterde | ||
| plural | hamsteren | hamsterden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | hamstere | hamsterde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | hamsteren | hamsterden | ||
| imperative sing. | hamster | |||
| imperative plur.1 | hamstert | |||
| participles | hamsterend | gehamsterd | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms edit
Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German hamstern.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hamsteren (third-person singular present hamstert, past participle gehamstert, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to hoard
Conjugation edit
| Regular | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | hamsteren | |
| participle | gehamstert | |
| auxiliary | hunn | |
| present indicative |
imperative | |
| 1st singular | hamsteren | — |
| 2nd singular | hamsters | hamster |
| 3rd singular | hamstert | — |
| 1st plural | hamsteren | — |
| 2nd plural | hamstert | hamstert |
| 3rd plural | hamsteren | — |
| (n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. | ||
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
hamsteren m
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
hamsteren m