menen

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.nən]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.nən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈme.nen]

menen

1. third-person plural present indicative of menar

From Middle Dutch mênen, from Old Dutch mēnen, from Proto-West Germanic *mainijan, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.nə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: me‧nen
• Rhymes: -eːnən

menen

1. to think; to have an opinion or assumption
2. to mean (to be serious and sincere; to have conviction in) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (archaic) to mean (to refer to; to have in mind)
4. (archaic) to mean (to convey; to want to say)
5. (obsolete) to mean (to have as meaning, e.g. of a word)

• (think): denken
• (be serious): serieus bedoelen
• (have in mind): bedoelen
• (convey): bedoelen
• (have as meaning): betekenen; heten

• mening
• vermenen

• Negerhollands: meen
• → Papiamentu: mèn, men
• →? Saramaccan: méni

• menne, nemen

menen

1. first-person singular present indicative of mennä

menen

1. first person plural exclusive;emphatic pronoun we, us

• Used in Pular.

• minen (Liptaako, Maasina, Fouta-toro, Adamawa)

• enen
• men
• meɗen
• hiɗen

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies‎, volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230

From Old Dutch mēnen, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną.

mênen

1. to mean, to signify
2. to intend
3. to mean, to stand for
4. to think, to be of the opinion

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• meinen

• Dutch: menen
• Limburgish: meine

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

From Old English mǣnan (“mean, intend; lament”).

menen

1. to intend, to mean to indicate or signify
2. to intend, to mean to do something, or that something will be the case; to plan
3. to say, to express
4. to remember; to recall or bear in mind
5. to advise or admonish or remind (someone of something)
6. to complain of, to lament
7. to lament, to mourn (for)
8. to pity, to comfort

From Old French mener (“lead”).

• mayne

menen

1. to direct or guide (one's horse or oneself)
2. (reflexive) to conduct oneself or behave (in a certain way)

From Proto-Germanic *mainijaną.

mēnen

1. to mean, to intend

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: mênen
  • Dutch: menen
  • Limburgish: meine

• “mēnen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

menen

1. inflection of menar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

menen

1. definite plural of men