bedammen
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bedammen. Equivalent to be- + dammen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈdɑ.mə(n)/
- Hyphenation: be‧dam‧men
- Rhymes: -ɑmən
Verb
bedammen
- (transitive, archaic) to dam, to confine or protect with dams (in relation to bodies of water and parts of land)
Inflection
| Inflection of bedammen (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bedammen | |||
| past singular | bedamde | |||
| past participle | bedamd | |||
| infinitive | bedammen | |||
| gerund | bedammen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | bedam | bedamde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | bedamt | bedamde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | bedamt | bedamde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | bedamt | bedamde | ||
| 3rd person singular | bedamt | bedamde | ||
| plural | bedammen | bedamden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | bedamme | bedamde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | bedammen | bedamden | ||
| imperative sing. | bedam | |||
| imperative plur.1 | bedamt | |||
| participles | bedammend | bedamd | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
- bedamming