verleiden

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch verleiden, verlêden, from Old Dutch *farleiden, *farlēden, from Proto-West Germanic *fralaidijan. Equivalent to ver- + leiden. Cognate with Old Saxon farlēdian, English forlead, German verleiten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vərˈlɛidə(n)/, /vɛrˈlɛidə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ver‧lei‧den
  • Rhymes: -ɛi̯dən

Verb

verleiden

  1. (transitive) to tempt
  2. (transitive) to seduce

Inflection

Conjugation of verleiden (weak, prefixed)
infinitive verleiden
past singular verleidde
past participle verleid
infinitive verleiden
gerund verleiden n
present tense past tense
1st person singular verleidverleidde
2nd person sing. (jij) verleidtverleidde
2nd person sing. (u) verleidtverleidde
2nd person sing. (gij) verleidtverleidde
3rd person singular verleidtverleidde
plural verleidenverleidden
subjunctive sing.1 verleideverleidde
subjunctive plur.1 verleidenverleidden
imperative sing. verleid
imperative plur.1 verleidt
participles verleidendverleid
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: verlei
  • Negerhollands: verlei, verlej

Anagrams

German

Etymology

By surface analysis, ver- + leiden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛʁˈlaɪ̯dn̩/
  • Hyphenation: ver‧lei‧den
  • (file)

Verb

verleiden (weak, third-person singular present verleidet, past tense verleidete, past participle verleidet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (higher register) to put someone off something, to ruin or spoil something for someone [+dative]
    Synonym: verderben

Conjugation

Derived terms

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