bagatelliseren
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German bagatellisieren, or possibly a direct formation from bagatel + -iseren.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːɣaːtɛliˈzeːrə(n)/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧tel‧li‧se‧ren
- Rhymes: -eːrən
Verb
bagatelliseren
- (transitive) to trivialize, to play down
- De verdachte bagatelliseerde het gevaar dat had kunnen ontstaan toen hij een machinegeweermagazijn leegschoot op de openbare weg.
- The suspect trivialised the danger that could have arisen when he emptied the magazine of a machine gun on a public road.
Inflection
| Inflection of bagatelliseren (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bagatelliseren | |||
| past singular | bagatelliseerde | |||
| past participle | gebagatelliseerd | |||
| infinitive | bagatelliseren | |||
| gerund | bagatelliseren n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | bagatelliseer | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| 3rd person singular | bagatelliseert | bagatelliseerde | ||
| plural | bagatelliseren | bagatelliseerden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | bagatellisere | bagatelliseerde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | bagatelliseren | bagatelliseerden | ||
| imperative sing. | bagatelliseer | |||
| imperative plur.1 | bagatelliseert | |||
| participles | bagatelliserend | gebagatelliseerd | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
- bagatellisering
References
- Etymologiebank entry for bagatelliseren.