doen

• doet (dialectal)

From Dutch doen, from Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

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doen (present doen, present participle doenende, past participle gedoen)

1. to do

• IPA^(key): /dun/

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• Hyphenation: doen
• Rhymes: -un

From Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t.

doen

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to put

   Doe dat daar maar in. ― Just put it in there.

3. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make; forms causative verbs

   Dat doet mij denken aan vorig jaar. ― That makes me think of last year; i.e. that reminds me of last year.

4. (ditransitive, informal) to give, serve, bring

   Doe mij maar een baco. ― I'd like a rum and coke. (literally, “Bring me a rum and coke.”)

5. (informal, transitive) to do, to have sex with someone

   Zou je haar doen? ― Would you do her?

6. (with wat) to touch a nerve; to strike a chord in

   Het doet me wat. ― It strikes a chord in me.

7. (with elkaar + indefinite pronoun, sometimes with postpositioned onder) to be different; to make a difference

   De beide camera's doen elkaar niet veel (onder). ― The two cameras aren’t much different [i.e. neither is much better than the other].

8. (informal, with an adjective) to behave or act in some way

   Doe maar gewoon. ― Just act normal.

9. Used as the finite verb after the fronting of an infinitive.

   Werken deed ze niet meer. ― She didn't work anymore.

• Afrikaans: doen
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dun
• Jersey Dutch: dûn, dûne
• Negerhollands: doe, du, due
• Skepi Creole Dutch: doon
• →? Aukan: du

Gerund of the verb doen.

doen n (uncountable)

1. routine

   De mensen zijn uit hun doen, maar schikken zich wel.

   The people are outside of their routine, but do accommodate themselves.

• in goeden doen

doen

1. Obsolete form of toen.

doen

1. Obsolete form of toen.

doen

1. inflection of doar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. third-person plural present indicative of doer

• dinn (chiefly south-western dialects; remains common)
• dunn (dated)

From Middle High German duon, from Old High German duon, a northern variety of tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn. The phonetically regular form is dunn. The form doen seems to be a backformation from the past participle by analogy with verbs such as droen, schloen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoːen/, [ˈdoː.ən]
  • Rhymes: -oːən

doen (third-person singular present deet, preterite doung, past participle gedoen, past subjunctive déit or déing, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to do
2. to make, cause

• The verb is overall rare and widely replaced with maachen (even in many cases where German would use tun rather than machen).
• The preterite doung is obsolete in general Luxembourgish, whereas the subjunctive déit (déing) still sees some usage as an alternative auxiliary for the conditional tense: ech déit soen (“I would say”) instead of ech géif soen, ech géing soen.

From Old Dutch duon.

doen

1. to do
2. to cause
3. to put, to place

• Dutch: doen
  • Afrikaans: doen
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dun
  • Jersey Dutch: dûn, dûne
  • Negerhollands: doe, du, due
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: doon
  • →? Aukan: du
• Limburgish: doon

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

• “doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “doen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• doet

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

• endo-, done, node, oden, onde

• doet

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

• delen, desen, dethen (colloquial)
• deuem, doem (literary, first-person plural)
• deuent, doent (literary, third-person plural)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /doːɨ̯n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dɔi̯n/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯n

doen

1. first/third-person plural conditional colloquial of dod