See also: Huren and Húrén

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch huren, from Old Dutch *hūren, from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀijan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɦyrə(n)/, [ˈɦyːrə(n)]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -yrən

Verb

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huren

  1. to rent, hire
    We besloten een auto te huren voor onze vakantie.
    We decided to rent a car for our vacation.
    Ze hebben een huis in de stad gehuurd.
    They have rented a house in the city.
    Ik wil graag een fiets huren om de stad te verkennen.
    I would like to rent a bike to explore the city.

Inflection

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Conjugation of huren (weak)
infinitive huren
past singular huurde
past participle gehuurd
infinitive huren
gerund huren n
present tense past tense
1st person singular huur huurde
2nd person sing. (jij) huurt huurde
2nd person sing. (u) huurt huurde
2nd person sing. (gij) huurt huurde
3rd person singular huurt huurde
plural huren huurden
subjunctive sing.1 hure huurde
subjunctive plur.1 huren huurden
imperative sing. huur
imperative plur.1 huurt
participles hurend gehuurd
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Negerhollands: huur
  • Aukan: yuu
  • Papiamentu: hür, hir, hier
  • Saramaccan: júu
  • Sranan Tongo: yuru

German

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Etymology

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Hure +‎ -en

Pronunciation

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Verb

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huren (weak, third-person singular present hurt, past tense hurte, past participle gehurt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to whore
    • 1835, Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod[1]:
      Was ist das, was in uns lügt, hurt, stiehlt und mordet?
      What is it in us being a liar, a whore, a thief and a murderer?

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • huren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • huren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • huren” in Duden online
  • huren” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *hūren, from Proto-Germanic *hūrijaną.

Verb

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huren

  1. to rent
  2. to hire

Inflection

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Weak
Infinitive huren
3rd sg. past
3rd pl. past
Past participle
Infinitive huren
In genitive hurens
In dative hurene
Indicative Present Past
1st singular hure
2nd singular huurs, hures
3rd singular huurt, huret
1st plural huren
2nd plural huurt, huret
3rd plural huren
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular hure
2nd singular huurs, hures
3rd singular hure
1st plural huren
2nd plural huurt, huret
3rd plural huren
Imperative Present
Singular huur, hure
Plural huurt, huret
Present Past
Participle hurende

Descendants

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Middle English

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Pronoun

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huren

  1. Alternative form of heren (theirs)