Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Ca. 1900, from English trim, from Old English trymman. The sense “work out” perhaps after the English expression keep in trim. This sense appears simultaneously in Dutch and German in the later 1960s, so one may have borrowed it from the other.

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪmən

Verb edit

trimmen

  1. to work out, especially to jog
  2. to trim the hair of a dog or a horse

Inflection edit

Inflection of trimmen (weak)
infinitive trimmen
past singular trimde
past participle getrimd
infinitive trimmen
gerund trimmen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular trim trimde
2nd person sing. (jij) trimt trimde
2nd person sing. (u) trimt trimde
2nd person sing. (gij) trimt trimde
3rd person singular trimt trimde
plural trimmen trimden
subjunctive sing.1 trimme trimde
subjunctive plur.1 trimmen trimden
imperative sing. trim
imperative plur.1 trimt
participles trimmend getrimd
1) Archaic.

German edit

Etymology edit

Late 19th century, at first in nautical parlance, from English trim, from Old English trymman. For the sense “work out” compare the Dutch entry above.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁɪmən/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: trim‧men

Verb edit

trimmen (weak, third-person singular present trimmt, past tense trimmte, past participle getrimmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (nautical, aviation) to trim
  2. (of a dog's hair, a man's beard) to trim
  3. (with auf) to give something the appearance, look, air of
  4. (with auf) to drill or condition someone for (some behaviour or mindset)
  5. (reflexive, dated) to work out, to keep oneself physically fit through exercise [chiefly 1970s and 80s]

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