palen
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]palen (third-person singular simple present palens, present participle palening, simple past and past participle palened)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become pale.
- 1932, Transactions, volumes 22-23, page 279:
- […] the brown portion gradually palened towards the postero-interior margin, with an inconspicuous paler median streak.
- 1998, Ann Baer, Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman, page 114:
- Marion dumped Alice in the wheelbarrow with slices of honeybread between dock leaves on her lap, and wheeled it down the garden, past the beans, darkening as they ripened, past the peas, palening as they ripened, past the neat rows of onions and cabbages.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch palen. Equivalent to paal + -en.
Verb
[edit]palen
- (transitive) to mark or enclose with posts
- (intransitive) to border [with aan ‘on’]
- (transitive, vulgar) to bang, to fuck
- (transitive, rare) to execute by piercing on a stake, to impale
- 1961, Berend Maarsingh, Onderzoek naar de ethiek van de wetten in Deuteronomium, page 36:
- C.H. § 153, M.A.W. § 53 de vrouw wordt gepaald;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of palen (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | palen | |||
past singular | paalde | |||
past participle | gepaald | |||
infinitive | palen | |||
gerund | palen n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | paal | paalde | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | paalt, paal2 | paalde | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | paalt | paalde | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | paalt | paalde | ||
3rd person singular | paalt | paalde | ||
plural | palen | paalden | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | pale | paalde | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | palen | paalden | ||
imperative sing. | paal | |||
imperative plur.1 | paalt | |||
participles | palend | gepaald | ||
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]palen
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