doen

• doet (dialectal)

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

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-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. (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].

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

   Doe maar gewoon.

   Just act normal.

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

   Werken deed ze niet meer.

   She didn't work anymore.

• doen alsof
• doen en laten
• het doen
• aandoen
• afdoen
• meedoen
• misdoen
• nadoen
• ongedaan
• ontdoen
• opdoen
• overdoen
• toedoen
• verdoen
• voordoen
• wegdoen

• Afrikaans: doen

Gerund of the verb doen.

doen n (uncountable)

1. routine

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

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

• dinn (chiefly south-western dialects; remains common)
• dunn (dated)

From Old High German duon, a northern variety of tuon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną. The phonetically regular form is dunn. The form doen seems to be a backformation from the past participle by analogy with verbs such as droen, schloen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.en/, [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 overall rare and widely replaced with maachen (even in many cases where German would use tun rather than machen).
• The preterite doung is obsolete in general Luxembourgish, whereas the subjunctive déit (déing) still sees some usage as an alternative auxiliary for the conditional tense: ech déit soen (“I would say”) instead of ech géif soen, ech géing soen.

From Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną.

doen

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

• Dutch: doen
  • Afrikaans: doen
• Limburgish: doon

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

• “doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• doet

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

• 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/

doen

1. (colloquial) first- and third-person plural conditional of dod