dimmen
English
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editdimmen (third-person singular simple present dimmens, present participle dimmening, simple past and past participle dimmened)
- (intransitive, rare) To become less bright; to dim.
- 1993 November 10, pau...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead[1] (Usenet):
- BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.
- 2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164:
- On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the ancient little gate, so rickety it seemed held together only by immemorial layers of glittering knobbly black paint.
References
edit- ^ “dimmen, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Dutch
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editdimmen
- (transitive) to dim, to make darker (especially a light)
- (intransitive, colloquial) to tone down oneself, to pipe down, to be quiet
- Effe dimmen, vriend. ― Check yourself, mate.
Conjugation
editConjugation of dimmen (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | dimmen | |||
past singular | dimde | |||
past participle | gedimd | |||
infinitive | dimmen | |||
gerund | dimmen n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | dim | dimde | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | dimt, dim2 | dimde | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | dimt | dimde | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | dimt | dimde | ||
3rd person singular | dimt | dimde | ||
plural | dimmen | dimden | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | dimme | dimde | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | dimmen | dimden | ||
imperative sing. | dim | |||
imperative plur.1 | dimt | |||
participles | dimmend | gedimd | ||
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. |
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Verb
editdimmen (weak, third-person singular present dimmt, past tense dimmte, past participle gedimmt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
editinfinitive | dimmen | ||||
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present participle | dimmend | ||||
past participle | gedimmt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich dimme | wir dimmen | i | ich dimme | wir dimmen |
du dimmst | ihr dimmt | du dimmest | ihr dimmet | ||
er dimmt | sie dimmen | er dimme | sie dimmen | ||
preterite | ich dimmte | wir dimmten | ii | ich dimmte1 | wir dimmten1 |
du dimmtest | ihr dimmtet | du dimmtest1 | ihr dimmtet1 | ||
er dimmte | sie dimmten | er dimmte1 | sie dimmten1 | ||
imperative | dimm (du) dimme (du) |
dimmt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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