knoeften
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
knoeften
- (Belgium, specifically Antwerp) to work laboriously or hard
- 2012 February 1, “De triomfantelijke solotocht van grootmeester Albert”, in 't Pallieterke, volume 67, number 5, page 15:
- Onze Niels reed half koers, met nog vijf rondjes te “knoeften”, moederziel alleen, met een halve minuut voorsprong.
- Our Niels was riding halfway down the race, with five more laps to toil ahead, completely alone, with a lead of half a minute.
- 2012 December/2013 January, Maarten Bernaerts, "Een tekst schrijven, dat is knoeften", Gazet van Zurenborg, page 32.
- Bert Dockx: “Om de zoveel maanden komt er eens een tekst vlot uit. Maar voor de rest is dat knoeften. Dan ben je soms uren bezig zonder resultaat.”
- Bert Dockx: "Once in a few months a text will come out naturally. But at other times it is drudgery. Sometimes you are then working at it for hours without any result."
Inflection edit
| Inflection of knoeften (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | knoeften | |||
| past singular | knoeftte | |||
| past participle | geknoeft | |||
| infinitive | knoeften | |||
| gerund | knoeften n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | knoeft | knoeftte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | knoeft | knoeftte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | knoeft | knoeftte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | knoeft | knoeftte | ||
| 3rd person singular | knoeft | knoeftte | ||
| plural | knoeften | knoeftten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | knoefte | knoeftte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | knoeften | knoeftten | ||
| imperative sing. | knoeft | |||
| imperative plur.1 | knoeft | |||
| participles | knoeftend | geknoeft | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||