doen

• doet (dialectal)

From Dutch doen, from Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /dun/

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doen (present doen, present participle doenende, past participle gedoen)

1. to do

• IPA^(key): /dun/

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• Hyphenation: doen
• Rhymes: -un

From Middle Dutch doen, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t.

doen

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to put

   Doe dat daar maar in. ― Just put it in there.

3. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make; forms causative verbs

   Dat doet mij denken aan vorig jaar. ― That makes me think of last year; i.e. that reminds me of last year.

4. (ditransitive, informal) to give, serve, bring

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

5. (informal, transitive) to do, to have sex with someone

   Zou je haar doen? ― Would you do her?

6. (with wat) to touch a nerve; to strike a chord in

   Het doet me wat. ― It strikes a chord in me.

7. (with elkaar + indefinite pronoun, sometimes with postpositioned onder) to be different; to make a difference

   De beide camera's doen elkaar niet veel (onder). ― The two cameras aren’t much different [i.e. neither is much better than the other].

8. (informal, with an adjective) to behave or act in some way

   Doe maar gewoon. ― Just act normal.

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

   Werken deed ze niet meer. ― She didn't work anymore.

10. (Brabant, auxiliary) Added to sentences without a specific meaning, when there is no other auxiliary.

    Ik doe mijn eigen goed voorbereiden. ― I prepare myself well.

• Afrikaans: doen
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dun
• Jersey Dutch: dûn, dûne
• Negerhollands: doe, du, due
• Skepi Creole Dutch: doon
• →? Aukan: du

Gerund of the verb doen.

doen n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. routine

   De mensen zijn uit hun doen, maar schikken zich wel.

   The people are outside of their routine, but do accommodate themselves.

• in goeden doen
• nietsdoen

doen

1. obsolete form of toen

doen

1. obsolete form of toen

doen

1. inflection of doar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. third-person plural present indicative of doer

• dinn (alternative standard, chiefly south-western areas)
• dunn, dongen (now dated, dialectal)

From Middle High German duon, from Old High German duon, West Central German form of tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn.

The phonetically regular Luxembourgish outcome is dunn; the form doen must be a backformation from the past participle by analogy with verbs like droen (“to carry”), schloen (“to hit”). Analogy with goen (“to go”) explains the past tense doung. By contrast, the present forms du dees, hien deet (continuing Middle High German -ei-) are very old; they are found in most dialects of Central Franconian, Limburgish and Low German (Middle Low German deist, deit).

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

doen (third-person singular present deet, preterite doung, past participle gedoen, past subjunctive déit or déing, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to do
2. to make, cause

• The verb is fairly rare and widely replaced with maachen (even in many cases where German would use tun rather than machen).
• The preterite doung is highly archaic in general Luxembourgish. The subjunctive déit / déing still sees some usage as an alternative auxiliary for the conditional tense: ech déit soen (“I would say”) instead of more common ech géif soen, ech géing soen.

From Old Dutch duon.

doen

1. to do
2. to cause
3. to put, to place

• 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 of doe

doen

1. alternative form of doe

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

• doet

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

• endo-, done, node, oden, onde

• doet

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

• 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-person plural conditional colloquial of dod