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vertrouwen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • confide verb To tell someone a secret, trusting them to keep it private.
  • confidence noun A feeling of self-assurance and belief in your own abilities.
  • depend verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
  • faith noun Confidence or trust in someone or something, based on past experience or evidence.
  • fate noun The power thought to control everything that happens, seen as unavoidable; also, the eventual outcome awaiting someone or something.
  • trust noun Firm belief in the reliability or honesty of someone or something.

Senses

vertrouwen is used for these senses in English:

  • confide (intransitive, with in) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.
  • confidence A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
  • depend (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
  • trust (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

confide — full definition

  1. verb To tell someone a secret, trusting them to keep it private.
  2. verb To entrust a task or responsibility to someone.

confidence — full definition

  1. noun A feeling of self-assurance and belief in your own abilities.
  2. noun A firm trust or belief that something is true or will happen.
  3. noun Information shared privately, on the understanding it will be kept secret.

Related Dutch words