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Definition 2025
begripen
begripen
Middle Dutch
Verb
begripen
- to grab hold of, to grasp
- to encompass, to contain
- to catch, to apprehend
- to reprimand
- to undertake, to perform
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: begrijpen
Swedish
Etymology
past participle of begripa.
Adjective
begripen
Declension
| Inflection of begripen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | begripen | — | — |
| Neuter singular | begripet | — | — |
| Plural | begripna | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | begripne | — | — |
| All | begripna | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. | |||