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| Teup | Thursday 23rd of June 2005 06:05:09 PM |
| Maffe werkwoorden - As you will have noticed, Dutch excels in compounding verbs with prepositions and everything.. And as you may or may not know, the meanings of the members of each family are often totally unrelated. What's more, even one of these verbs could mean multiple things that can be totally unrelated, and natives are usually not even aware of this (I only now realized it's kind of funny for a SWAT team to ask a kidnapper to "geef over", which could mean surrender but also be a request for him to thow up :))
([i]thanks for pointing out the previous example was erraneous, Daan :)[/i]) I just picked a few good candidates and thought of the variations, so tell me if I forgot something :) I don't know if it's worth to learn this list (part of it surely is), but I just felt like doing this :p / seperates different explainations of the same meaning, whilst the real different, totally unrelated meanings i seperated with ; verb staan - to stand with prefixes bestaan - to exist ontstaan - come into existence, to arise verstaan - to understand a spoken word with prepositions aanstaan - to be considered pleasant; to be (switched) on; to be next to happen achterstaan - to be behind in a game afstaan - to sacrifice / to cede to; to be (turned) off bijstaan - to assist / to aid doorstaan - to endure / to pass instaan (voor) - to guarantee opstaan - to get out of one's bed; to rise tegenstaan - to be considered unpleasant / to be not looked forward to (er) tegenoverstaan - to be on the other hand / to be in exchange to something ("er staat tegenover dat je veel geld verdient" "on the other hand, you'll make alot of money") toestaan - to allow uitstaan - to stand / to bear; to be (switched) off voorstaan - to defend / to support; to be ahead in a game weerstaan - to resist ----- verb vallen - to fall with prefixes bevallen - to be pleasing to / to be liked by; to give birth vervallen - to expire / to be cancelled; to become ramshackle with prepositions afvallen - to let down; to lose weight; to be elimiated invallen - to stand in / substitute; to get a good idea; to collapse; to commit an invasion / to raid meevallen - to turn out to be better than expected opvallen - to stand out / to be conspicuous overvallen - to rob (involving communication with victim, e.g. a bank clerk) tegenvallen - to turn out to be worse than expected / to fall short toevallen - to fall shut; to be confered to / to devolve to uitvallen (tegen) - to become enraged and offensive (against) uitvallen - to fail (electricity, devices, etc); to be called off; to drop out voorvallen - to come to pass / to occur ----- verb werken - to work with prefixes verwerken - to process; to get over (a shock etc); to digest bewerken - to cultivate / to farm; to edit with prepositions afwerken - to perform finishing touches bijwerken - to refine; to update; to earn an additional income doorwerken - to keep on working; to make itself felt / to resonate inwerken - to show the ropes / to get someone in the routine; to act upon / to affect slowly, over time meewerken - to contribute; to cooperate opwerken - to climb the ladder overwerken - do do overtime; to overwork tegenwerken - to sabotage uitwerken - to turn out to be effective; to work out (a plan etc) ----- verb slaan - to beat / to hit / to smack with prefixes beslaan - to take up / to cover; to mist up / to tarnish ontslaan - to fire; to release (from hospital etc) verslaan - to defeat; to report / to give account of with prepositions aanslaan - to assess / to value; to tarnish; to start up; to become popular, in fashion afslaan - to turn down (an offer etc); to take a turn in traffic doorslaan - to berzerk; to become obsessed with an idea, overusing it inslaan - to stock up; to turn into; to make impact (a bomb etc) toeslaan - to seize the opportunity / to attack; to slam shut opslaan - to storage; to encamp overslaan - to skip a beat; to pass over / to ignore; for a voice to crack uitslaan - to spread / to unfold; to effloresce; for a measuring instrument to indicate a value (weerslaan - to repercuss) ----- verb geven - to give with prefixes begeven - to collapse zich begeven (naar) - to be heading for vergeven - to forgive with prepositions aangeven - to indicate; to hand; to inform against afgeven - to deliver; to let be confiscated; to give off / to emit (like paint that's still wet) doorgeven - to pass on / to tell; to pass on / to hand ingeven - to inspire meegeven - to give; to give way; to be resilient opgeven - to give up; to lose heart zich opgeven - to enroll overgeven - to vomit zich overgeven - to surrender toegeven - to admit; to indulge uitgeven - to publish voorgeven - to pretend / to sham weergeven - to display ----- The template: verb with prefixes be ont ver with prepositions aan achter af bij door in mee op over tegen toe uit voor weer ----- Edit: discovered preposition 'toe'! Any others I forgot?? | |
| housatonic | Sunday 10th of July 2005 10:10:39 PM |
| - ivm overgeven - als ik mij niet vergis, komt 'geef over' enkel van overgeven, niet van zich overgeven | |
| Teup | Monday 11th of July 2005 03:44:14 AM |
| - Klopt; de in zin van kotsen is het niet reflexief, anders wel. Ik heb dat in die lijst ook duidelijk gemaakt, alle reflexieve werkwoorden heb ik van een 'zich' voorzien :) | |
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