Dutch

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch droppen, from Old Dutch droppon, from Proto-West Germanic *droppōn, from Proto-Germanic *druppōną.

Verb

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druppen

  1. (intransitive) to drip
    Synonym: druppelen
Conjugation
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Conjugation 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, drup2 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. 2) In case of inversion.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: drup
  • Negerhollands: drup
  • Papiamentu: drep

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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druppen

  1. plural of drup

Further reading

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