kaarden

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from carder, from Late Latin caritare, from Latin carrere (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker (“to cut”). By surface analysis, kaarde +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːr.də(n)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kaar‧den
• Rhymes: -aːrdən

Verb

kaarden

1. to card (to use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning)

Inflection

Conjugation of kaarden (weak)
infinitive	kaarden
past singular	kaardde
past participle	gekaard
infinitive	kaarden
gerund	kaarden n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	kaard	kaardde
2nd person sing. (jij)	kaardt, kaard2	kaardde
2nd person sing. (u)	kaardt	kaardde
2nd person sing. (gij)	kaardt	kaardde
3rd person singular	kaardt	kaardde
plural	kaarden	kaardden
subjunctive sing.1	kaarde	kaardde
subjunctive plur.1	kaarden	kaardden
imperative sing.	kaard
imperative plur.1	kaardt
participles	kaardend	gekaard
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Related terms

• kaarde
• kaardenbol