huren
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch huren, from Old Dutch *hūren, from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀijan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦyrə(n)/, [ˈɦyːrə(n)]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -yrən
Verb
huren
- 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.
Conjugation
| 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, huur2 | 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. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: huur
- → Aukan: yuu
- → Papiamentu: hür, hir, hier
- → Saramaccan: júu
- → Sranan Tongo: yuru
- → Kari'na: juruma
German
Etymology
From Middle High German huoren, from Old High German huorōn, from Proto-Germanic *hōrōną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhuːʁən/
Audio: (file)
Verb
huren (weak, third-person singular present hurt, past tense hurte, past participle gehurt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) 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
Conjugation of huren (weak, auxiliary haben)
| infinitive | huren | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | hurend | ||||
| past participle | gehurt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich hure | wir huren | i | ich hure | wir huren |
| du hurst | ihr hurt | du hurest | ihr huret | ||
| er hurt | sie huren | er hure | sie huren | ||
| preterite | ich hurte | wir hurten | ii | ich hurte1 | wir hurten1 |
| du hurtest | ihr hurtet | du hurtest1 | ihr hurtet1 | ||
| er hurte | sie hurten | er hurte1 | sie hurten1 | ||
| imperative | hur (du) hure (du) |
hurt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of huren (weak, auxiliary haben)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “huren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “huren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “huren” in Duden online
- “huren” in OpenThesaurus.de
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *hūren, from Proto-Germanic *hūrijaną.
Verb
huren
Inflection
| infinitive | base form | huren | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| genitive | hurens | ||||||
| dative | hurene | ||||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||||
| present | past | present | past | ||||
| 1st person singular | hure | — | hure | — | |||
| 2nd person singular | huurs, hures | — | huurs, hures | — | |||
| 3rd person singular | huurt, huret | — | hure | — | |||
| 1st person plural | huren | — | huren | — | |||
| 2nd person plural | huurt, huret | — | huurt, huret | — | |||
| 3rd person plural | huren | — | huren | — | |||
| imperative | |||||||
| singular | huur, hure | ||||||
| plural | huurt, huret | ||||||
| present | past | ||||||
| participle | hurende | — | |||||
Descendants
Further reading
- “huren”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “huren”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
huren
- alternative form of heren (“theirs”)
Etymology 2
Verb
huren
- (West Midlands, Early Middle English) alternative form of hiren (“to hire”)