behandle

From be- +‎ handle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behondelje (“to handle, deal with, treat”), Dutch behandelen (“to handle, treat”), German behandeln (“to treat”), Norwegian behandle (“to treat”).

• Rhymes: -ændəl

behandle (third-person singular simple present behandles, present participle behandling, simple past and past participle behandled)

1. (transitive) To handle all about; take (up) in one's hands; care for; deal with; treat.
   • 1892, Ménie Muriel Dowie, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A girl in the Karpathians:

     In England I know a household where, after the eight o'clock breakfast, it is usual to behandle one's skeins, find one's knitting, and continue the long even rounds of the stocking begun yesterday, or copy patiently the completed gusset in the sleeve of a spencer.

behandle (imperative behandl, infinitive at behandle, present tense behandler, past tense behandlede, perfect tense har behandlet)

1. treat

   Behandl dem ordentligt.

   Treat them well.

• behandlet
• behandling

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behandle

1. inflection of behandeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From German behandeln.

behandle (imperative behandl or behandle, present tense behandler, passive behandles, simple past and past participle behandla or behandlet)

1. to treat

• behandling
• databehandle
• ubehandlet

• “behandle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• behandla

From German behandeln.

behandle (present tense behandlar, past tense behandla, past participle behandla, passive infinitive behandlast, present participle behandlande, imperative behandle/behandl)

1. to treat

• behandling

• “behandle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.