witwassen
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
- witwasschen (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Compound of wit + wassen. The sense “to launder (money)” was influenced by English launder.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
witwassen
- (transitive) to wash up, clean especially with a whitening agent
- (transitive) to launder (money); to guise (something illegal) as legal
- 2012 December 20, Joris Luyendijk, “Doem en Gloem”, in NRC:
- de Britse bank HSBC krijgt een boete van 2 miljard dollar voor onder meer het witwassen van drugsgeld
- the British bank HSBC received a 2 billion dollar fine for, among other things, laundering drug money.
Inflection edit
| Inflection of witwassen (weak with strong past participle, separable) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | witwassen | |||
| past singular | waste wit | |||
| past participle | witgewassen | |||
| infinitive | witwassen | |||
| gerund | witwassen n | |||
| main clause | subordinate clause | |||
| present tense | past tense | present tense | past tense | |
| 1st person singular | was wit | waste wit | witwas | witwaste |
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | wast wit | waste wit | witwast | witwaste |
| 2nd person sing. (u) | wast wit | waste wit | witwast | witwaste |
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | wast wit | waste wit | witwast | witwaste |
| 3rd person singular | wast wit | waste wit | witwast | witwaste |
| plural | wassen wit | wasten wit | witwassen | witwasten |
| subjunctive sing.1 | wasse wit | waste wit | witwasse | witwaste |
| subjunctive plur.1 | wassen wit | wasten wit | witwassen | witwasten |
| imperative sing. | was wit | |||
| imperative plur.1 | wast wit | |||
| participles | witwassend | witgewassen | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||