Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʏ.pə(n)/
  • Hyphenation: drup‧pen
  • Rhymes: -ʏpən

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch droppen, from Proto-Germanic *druppōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrbʰ-néh₂-, from *dʰrbʰ-. Also compare *drupô (a drop).

Verb edit

druppen

  1. (intransitive) to drip
Inflection edit
Inflection of druppen (weak)
infinitive druppen
past singular drupte
past participle gedrupt
infinitive druppen
gerund druppen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular drup drupte
2nd person sing. (jij) drupt drupte
2nd person sing. (u) drupt drupte
2nd person sing. (gij) drupt drupte
3rd person singular drupt drupte
plural druppen drupten
subjunctive sing.1 druppe drupte
subjunctive plur.1 druppen drupten
imperative sing. drup
imperative plur.1 drupt
participles druppend gedrupt
1) Archaic.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: drup
  • Negerhollands: drup
  • Papiamentu: drep

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

druppen

  1. plural of drup

Further reading edit

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “druppon-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105