niksen
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Verbification of niks (literally “nothing”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
niksen
- (informal, intransitive) to do nothing, to loaf, to idle
- 1953 April 29, “Toon Hermans speurt naar één procent bruikbaar talent”, in Leeuwarder Courant, page 3:
- Hij bedoelde daarmee niet, dat hij wilde doorgaan met niksen, zoals hij nu een jaar genikst heeft.
- By that he did not mean that he would continue doing nothing, as he has been doing nothing for a year now.
Inflection edit
| Conjugation of niksen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | niksen | |||
| past singular | nikste | |||
| past participle | genikst | |||
| infinitive | niksen | |||
| gerund | niksen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | niks | nikste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | nikst | nikste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | nikst | nikste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | nikst | nikste | ||
| 3rd person singular | nikst | nikste | ||
| plural | niksen | niksten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | nikse | nikste | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | niksen | niksten | ||
| imperative sing. | niks | |||
| imperative plur.1 | nikst | |||
| participles | niksend | genikst | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||