"verlegen" meaning in Dutch

See verlegen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /vərˈleːɣə(n)/, /vɛrˈleːɣə(n)/ Audio: Nl-verlegen.ogg
Rhymes: -eːɣən Etymology: From Middle Dutch verleghen (“weakened, spoilt”), past participle of Middle Dutch verliggen (“to lie wrong, be stuck, whither away”). By surface analysis, ver- + liggen. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|verleghen|t=weakened, spoilt}} Middle Dutch verleghen (“weakened, spoilt”), {{m+|dum|verliggen|t=to lie wrong, be stuck, whither away}} Middle Dutch verliggen (“to lie wrong, be stuck, whither away”), {{surf|nl|ver-|liggen}} By surface analysis, ver- + liggen Head templates: {{nl-adj}} verlegen (comparative verlegener, superlative verlegenst) Inflection templates: {{nl-decl-adj}} Forms: verlegener [comparative], verlegenst [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], verlegen [adverbial, positive, predicative], verlegener [adverbial, comparative, predicative], het verlegenst [adverbial, predicative, superlative], het verlegenste [adverbial, predicative, superlative], verlegen [feminine, indefinite, masculine, positive, singular], verlegener [comparative, feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular], verlegenste [feminine, indefinite, masculine, singular, superlative], verlegen [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], verlegener [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], verlegenste [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], verlegen [indefinite, plural, positive], verlegener [comparative, indefinite, plural], verlegenste [indefinite, plural, superlative], verlegen [definite, positive], verlegener [comparative, definite], verlegenste [definite, superlative], verlegens [partitive, positive], verlegeners [comparative, partitive], - [partitive, superlative]
  1. shy, bashful, timid Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: beschroomd, bedeesd, bleu, schroomvallig, schuchter, schuw, timide
    Sense id: en-verlegen-nl-adj-UovgACbk
  2. embarrassed
    Sense id: en-verlegen-nl-adj-8S4a7cRd
  3. lacking, having a shortage
    Sense id: en-verlegen-nl-adj-24BUEmiJ Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Dutch terms prefixed with ver- Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 32 13 45 10 Disambiguation of Dutch terms prefixed with ver-: 19 25 36 20
  4. (obsolete) spoiled, rotten Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-verlegen-nl-adj-GPZMPX3i
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: verleegen [obsolete] Derived forms: verlegenheid
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          "word": "schroomvallig"
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          "english": "Our team still lacks a biologist.",
          "text": "Ons team zit nog om een bioloog verlegen.",
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        "(obsolete) spoiled, rotten"
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      "ipa": "/vərˈleːɣə(n)/"
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        "spoiled, rotten"
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      "word": "verleegen"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.