bekruisen
Dutch
Alternative forms
- bekruizen (uncommon, non-standard)
Etymology
From be- + kruisen (“to make a cross; to traverse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈkrœy̯.sə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: be‧krui‧sen
Verb
bekruisen
- (with reflexive pronoun, Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) to make the sign of the cross, to becross oneself
- (transitive, nautical) to repeatedly traverse a patrol area, to sail on patrol throughout a certain area
- (transitive) to becross, to put a cross on
Inflection
| Inflection of bekruisen (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bekruisen | |||
| past singular | bekruiste | |||
| past participle | bekruist | |||
| infinitive | bekruisen | |||
| gerund | bekruisen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | bekruis | bekruiste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | bekruist | bekruiste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | bekruist | bekruiste | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | bekruist | bekruiste | ||
| 3rd person singular | bekruist | bekruiste | ||
| plural | bekruisen | bekruisten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | bekruise | bekruiste | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | bekruisen | bekruisten | ||
| imperative sing. | bekruis | |||
| imperative plur.1 | bekruist | |||
| participles | bekruisend | bekruist | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
- bekruising