• doet(dialectal)

FromDutchdoen, fromMiddle Dutchdoen, fromOld Dutchduon, fromProto-Germanic*dōną, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-.

• IPA^(key):/dun/

• Audio:

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doen (presentdoen,present participledoenende,past participlegedoen)

1. todo

• IPA^(key):/dun/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:doen
• Rhymes:-un

FromMiddle Dutchdoen, fromOld Dutchduon, fromProto-West Germanic*dōn, fromProto-Germanic*dōną, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁t.

doen

1. (transitive) todo
2. (transitive) toput

   Doe dat daar maar in. ―Justput it in there.

3. (auxiliary) tocause to, tomake;formscausative verbs

   Datdoet mij denken aan vorig jaar. ―Thatmakes me think of last year; i.e. that reminds me of last year.

4. (ditransitive,informal) togive,serve,bring

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

5. (informal,transitive) todo, to havesex with someone

   Zou je haardoen? ―Would youdo her?

6. (withwat) totouch a nerve; tostrike a chord in

   Hetdoet me wat. ―Itstrikes a chord in me.

7. (withelkaar + indefinite pronoun, sometimes with postpositionedonder) to bedifferent; tomake a difference

   De beide camera'sdoen elkaar niet veel (onder). ―The two camerasaren’t muchdifferent [i.e. neither is much better than the other].

8. (informal, with an adjective) tobehave oract in some way

   Doe maar gewoon. ―Justact normal.

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

   Werkendeed 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 verbdoen.

doen n (uncountable)

1. routine

   De mensen zijn uit hundoen, maar schikken zich wel.

   The people are outside of theirroutine, but do accommodate themselves.

• in goeden doen
• nietsdoen

doen

1. Obsolete form oftoen.

doen

1. Obsolete form oftoen.

doen

1. inflection ofdoar:
   1. third-personpluralpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personpluralimperative
2. third-personpluralpresentindicative ofdoer

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

FromMiddle High Germanduon, fromOld High Germanduon, a northern variety oftuon, fromProto-West Germanic*dōn. The phonetically regular form isdunn. The formdoen seems to be a backformation from the past participle by analogy with verbs such asdroen,schloen.

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

doen (third-person singular presentdeet,preteritedoung,past participlegedoen,past subjunctivedéitordéing,auxiliary verbhunn)

1. todo
2. tomake,cause

• The verb is overall rare and widely replaced withmaachen (even in many cases where German would usetun rather thanmachen).
• The preteritedoung is obsolete in general Luxembourgish, whereas the subjunctivedéit (déing) still sees some usage as an alternative auxiliary for the conditional tense:ech déit soen (“I would say”) instead ofechgéif soen, echgéing soen.

FromOld Dutchduon.

doen

1. todo
2. tocause
3. toput, toplace

• 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 ofdoe

doen

1. Alternative form ofdoe

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

• doet

doen m orn

1. definitemasculinesingular ofdo

• endo-,done,node,oden,onde

• doet

doen m orn

1. definitemasculinesingular ofdo

• 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-personpluralconditionalcolloquial ofdod