bedienen

From Middle Dutch bedienen. Equivalent to be- +‎ dienen.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈdinə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: be‧die‧nen
• Rhymes: -inən

bedienen

1. (transitive) to be of assistance to, to serve
2. (transitive) to serve (at a restaurant)
3. (transitive) to operate (a device)
4. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to administer the last sacraments to
5. (reflexive, with prepositional object) to utilise, to make use [with van ‘of’]

• bedienaar
• bediende
• bediener
• bediening

• Afrikaans: bedien

From be- +‎ dienen.

• IPA^(key): [bəˈdiːnən]

• Audio:

  (file)

bedienen (weak, third-person singular present bedient, past tense bediente, past participle bedient, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to serve
2. (transitive) to operate
3. (transitive or intransitive, card games) to play a card according to the grouping of the first card of a trick; to follow suit

   Du musst Trumpf bedienen.

   You must follow suit and play trump.

4. (reflexive) to help oneself (to); to make use of [with genitive ‘something’]

• Bedienen
• Bediener
• Bedienung
• bedienend
• bedient

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

From be- +‎ dienen.

bedienen

1. to serve, to be useful

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: bedienen
  • Afrikaans: bedien
• Limburgish: bedene

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bedienen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN