doen

See also: doén

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• doet (dialectal)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Verb

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

1. to do

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dun/

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• Hyphenation: doen
• Rhymes: -un

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage)

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

Verb

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.

Inflection

Conjugation of doen (strong class non-standard, irregular)
infinitive	doen
past singular	deed
past participle	gedaan
infinitive	doen
gerund	doen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	doe	deed
2nd person sing. (jij)	doet	deed
2nd person sing. (u)	doet	deed
2nd person sing. (gij)	doet	deedt
3rd person singular	doet	deed
plural	doen	deden
subjunctive sing.1	doe	dede
subjunctive plur.1	doen	deden
imperative sing.	doe
imperative plur.1	doet
participles	doend	gedaan
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: doen

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb doen.

Noun

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.

Etymology 3

Adverb

doen

1. Obsolete form of toen.

Conjunction

doen

1. Obsolete form of toen.

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Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.en/, [ˈdoː.ən]
  • Rhymes: -oːən

Verb

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Conjugation

Irregular with past tense
infinitive	doen
participle	gedoen
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	past indicative	conditional	imperative
1st singular	doen	doung	déing	—
2nd singular	dees	doungs	déings	do
3rd singular	deet	doung	déing	—
1st plural	doen	doungen	déingen	—
2nd plural	dot	doungt	déingt	dot
3rd plural	doen	doungen	déingen	—
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Derived terms

• ausdoen
• hindoen
• ofdoen
• opdoen
• undoen
• ëmdoen

 

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage)

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

Verb

doen

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

Inflection

Conjugation of doen (irregular)

infinitive	doen
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	doe	dede
2nd person singular	does	dedes
3rd person singular	doet	dede
1st person plural	doen	daden
2nd person plural	doet	dadet
3rd person plural	doen	daden
subjunctive	present	past
1st person singular	doe	dade
2nd person singular	does	daets
3rd person singular	doe	dade
1st person plural	doen	daden
2nd person plural	doet	dadet
3rd person plural	doen	daden
imperative	present
singular	doe
plural	doet
participle	present	past
	doende	gedaen

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Adverb

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

Conjunction

doen

1. Alternative form of doe

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• doet

Noun

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• doet

Noun

doen m or n

1. definite masculine singular of do

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• delen, desen, dethen (colloquial)
• deuem, doem (literary, first-person plural)
• deuent, doent (literary, third-person plural)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /doːɨ̯n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dɔi̯n/

Verb

doen

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

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
doen	ddoen	noen	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.