verlezen
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vərˈleː.zə(n)/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ver‧le‧zen
- Rhymes: -eːzən
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch verlēsen. Equivalent to ver- + lezen (“to read”).
Verb
verlezen
- (reflexive) to misread
- Hij heeft zich verlezen in de instructies en daardoor de verkeerde afslag genomen. ― He misread the instructions and took the wrong exit as a result.
- Ik heb me een paar keer verlezen in de tekst. ― I misread the text a few times.
- (transitive) to spend or waste by reading (i.e. time)
- (transitive, increasingly rare) to separate (the good items from the bad ones), to pick, to select
Conjugation
| Conjugation of verlezen (strong class 5, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verlezen | |||
| past singular | verlas | |||
| past participle | verlezen | |||
| infinitive | verlezen | |||
| gerund | verlezen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | verlees | verlas | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | verleest, verlees2 | verlas | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | verleest | verlas | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | verleest | verlaast | ||
| 3rd person singular | verleest | verlas | ||
| plural | verlezen | verlazen | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | verleze | verlaze | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | verlezen | verlazen | ||
| imperative sing. | verlees | |||
| imperative plur.1 | verleest | |||
| participles | verlezend | verlezen | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
verlezen
- past participle of verlezen
Declension
| Declension of verlezen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | verlezen | |||
| inflected | verlezen | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | verlezen | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | verlezen | ||
| n. sing. | verlezen | |||
| plural | verlezen | |||
| definite | verlezen | |||
| partitive | verlezens | |||