verfilmen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German verfilmen. Equivalent to film + ver- -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vərˈfɪl.mə(n)/, /vɛrˈfɪl.mə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ver‧fil‧men

Verb

verfilmen

  1. (transitive) to make a film of, to turn into a movie [from 1913]
    • 1913 March 14, "De zegetocht van de film", tr. from German, in Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië, Vol. 18, No. 61, folio 3, page 1; a translated and redacted article from Das Echo.
      En eindelijk worden alle levensverrichtingen „verfilmd” en blijft er van de taal, van het gesproken woord, niemendal meer over...
      And finally all activities in life will be turned into films and of language, of the spoken word, nothing at all will remain any more...
  2. (transitive) to store on microform [from 20th c.]

Inflection

Conjugation of verfilmen (weak, prefixed)
infinitive verfilmen
past singular verfilmde
past participle verfilmd
infinitive verfilmen
gerund verfilmen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular verfilmverfilmde
2nd person sing. (jij) verfilmtverfilmde
2nd person sing. (u) verfilmtverfilmde
2nd person sing. (gij) verfilmtverfilmde
3rd person singular verfilmtverfilmde
plural verfilmenverfilmden
subjunctive sing.1 verfilmeverfilmde
subjunctive plur.1 verfilmenverfilmden
imperative sing. verfilm
imperative plur.1 verfilmt
participles verfilmendverfilmd
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

German

Etymology

From ver- + Film + -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈfɪlmən/
  • (file)

Verb

verfilmen (weak, third-person singular present verfilmt, past tense verfilmte, past participle verfilmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to make a film of

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • verfilmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • verfilmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • verfilmen” in Duden online
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