zien (masculine allocutiveziean,feminine allocutivezienan)
FromMiddle Dutchsien, fromOld Dutchsian, fromFrankish*sehan, fromProto-West Germanic*sehwan, fromProto-Germanic*sehwaną, fromProto-Indo-European*sekʷ-(“to see, notice”).
Originally a class 5 strong verb, but the Germanic*h was lost from the infinitive and present tense forms throughsyncope in Old Dutch. However, it alternated with*g in the past tense throughGrammatischer Wechsel, and this remained.
zien
| Conjugation ofzien (strong class 5, irregular) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | zien | |||
| past singular | zag | |||
| past participle | gezien | |||
| infinitive | zien | |||
| gerund | zienn | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | zie | zag | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | ziet,zie2 | zag | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | ziet | zag | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | ziet | zaagt | ||
| 3rd person singular | ziet | zag | ||
| plural | zien | zagen | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | zie | zage | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | zien | zagen | ||
| imperative sing. | zie | |||
| imperative plur.1 | ziet | |||
| participles | ziend | gezien | ||
| 1)Archaic.2) In case ofinversion. | ||||
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