plunderen
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch plonderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word.[1] Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplʏn.də.rə(n)/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: plun‧de‧ren
- Rhymes: -ʏndərən
Verb
plunderen
- (transitive, intransitive) to plunder, to pillage, to ransack
- (transitive, figurative) to empty, to completely withdraw
Conjugation
| Conjugation of plunderen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | plunderen | |||
| past singular | plunderde | |||
| past participle | geplunderd | |||
| infinitive | plunderen | |||
| gerund | plunderen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | plunder | plunderde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | plundert, plunder2 | plunderde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | plundert | plunderde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | plundert | plunderde | ||
| 3rd person singular | plundert | plunderde | ||
| plural | plunderen | plunderden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | plundere | plunderde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | plunderen | plunderden | ||
| imperative sing. | plunder | |||
| imperative plur.1 | plundert | |||
| participles | plunderend | geplunderd | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: plonder
- → Papiamentu: plènder
References
- ^ Witczak, Krzysztof (1996): The Pre-Germanic Substrata and Germanic Maritime Vocabulary , p. 173