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It is prefixed to existing verbs to indicate that the object of the resulting
transitive verb is wasted (always a negative connotation):
de tijd verpraten to talk away the time
benzine verrijden to use up petrol by superfluous driving
de/zijn tijd verslapen to sleep away the/one’s time
It is used to make branden ‘to burn’ a transitive verb:
Ik probeerde de kist te verbranden en die brandde niet
makkelijk.
I tried to burn the crate and it didn’t burn easily.
11.20.2.2
Examples of inseparable verbs in groups 2 and 3 with
prepositional or adverbial prefixes
It is impossible to give a complete list but the following will illustrate the
concept. When the same compound exists as both a separable and an
inseparable verb, the meaning of the former is usually more literal than
that of the latter, e.g. óndergaan ‘to go down, set [of the sun]’, ondergáán
‘to undergo’; óvernemen ‘to take over’, ondernémen ‘to undertake’. Notice
how so many of the English translations below don’t take the stress on the
prefix either (i.e. pur-, con-, mis-, em-, sur-, pre-, re- etc. 39 ), but on the second
syllable, the stem of the verb; this is similar to what is occurring in Dutch:
aanbidden to worship omvatten to comprise
aanvaarden to accept onderbreken to interrupt
achterhalen to catch up ondernemen to undertake
achtervolgen to pursue overleven to survive
doordenken to consider fully overtuigen to convince
doorzoeken to search volbrengen to fulfil
misbruiken to misuse, abuse voldoen to satisfy
zich misdragen to misbehave voorkomen to prevent
omhelzen to embrace voorspellen to predict
omschrijven to describe with weerspiegelen to reflect
omsingelen to surround weerstaan to resist
39 What English is doing here is using usually Latin derived verbal prefixes to express
what Dutch does with native words that often have exactly the same meaning, e.g. survive
= over-leven (‘vive’ deriving from Latin for ‘live’), pre-vent = voor-komen (‘vent’
deriving from Latin for ‘come’).
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