dwaan

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian dwā, duā, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dvaːn/

Verb

dwaan

1. to do

   Ik moat dan immen sykje dy't dat dwaan kin.

   I must find someone who can do that.

Inflection

Irregular
infinitive	dwaan
3rd singular past	die, diich, dyng
past participle	dien
infinitive	dwaan
long infinitive	dwaan
gerund	dwaan n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	doch	die, diich, dyng
2nd singular	dochst	diest, diichst, dyngst
clitic form	dochsto	diesto, diichsto, dyngsto
3rd singular	docht	die, diich, dyng
plural	dogge	dienen, diene, digen, dyngen
imperative	doch
participles	dwaand, dwaande	dien

Derived terms

• ûntdwaan

Further reading

• “dwaan”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011