Dutch–English dictionary

bediende

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

bedienen

(transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.

bediener

(informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

bediening

A waitress or waiter.

bediening van de eredienst

The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.

bedieningshendel

A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.

bedingen

(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

bedlegerig

(archaic) In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. [First attested from 1150 to 1350.]

bedlegerige

(dated, sometimes, offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.

bedoeïen

A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

bedoelen

(transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine. [from 16th c.]

bedoeling

A result that one is attempting to achieve.

bedompt

Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

bedorven

Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.

bedotten

(transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

bedotterij

(countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889]

bedraden

(transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.

bedrag

The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

bedragen

(transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.

bedreigd

in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)

bedreigen

(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

bedreigend

Fraught with danger.

bedreiging

An instance or cause of likely harm.

bedreven

Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

bedriegen

(transitive, informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

bedrieger

Someone who cheats.

bedriegerij

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

bedrieglijk

Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.

bedrieglijk beramen

(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.

bedrieglijkheid

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

bedriegster

A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

bedrijf

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

bedrijfs-

Of or relating to a corporation.

bedrijfstak

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

bedrijver

One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.

bedroefd

exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)

bedroeven

(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.

bedrog

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

bedrogene

A person who has been deceived.

bedronken

Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.

bedruipen

(transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

bedrukken

(transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).

bedruktheid

The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

bedtijd

The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

beduiden

(transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]

beduidend

Significant; worth considering.

beduvelen

To annoy or bother.

bedwingen

(transitive) To overpower; to subdue.

beëdigde verklaring

(legal) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.

beëindigen

(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]

beëindiging

(formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final.

beek

A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

beekforel

Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

beekje

A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.

beeld

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

beeldendienst

(religion) The worship of idols.

beeldhouwen

(countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

beeldhouwer

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

beeldhouwster

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

beeldhouwwerk

(countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

beeldig

Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

beeldje

A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.

beeldkopie

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)

beeldkwaliteit

(computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).

beeldmontage

(countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. [from early 20th c.]

beeldomroep

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

beeldscherm

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

beeldscherpte

(computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).

beeldschoon

Extremely beautiful

beeltenis

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Beëlzebub

(Christianity) Satan, the Devil.

been

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

beenbedekking

(slang) Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights.

beenhouwer

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

beer

A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.

beerput

A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water.

beest

(science) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).

beesten

(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.

beestje

(informal, now, chiefly, _, Scotland, Northern England) Beast, animal.

beet

The act of biting.

beetje

To a small extent or degree.

beetnemen

(transitive, colloquial) To deceive or dupe as a joke.

Beets

A surname from Dutch.

beffen

Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina.

begaafd

Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

begaafdheid

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

begaan

(transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

begeerd

Highly sought-after.

begeerlijk

(colloquial, of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.

begeerte

An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.

begeleiden

(transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

begeleidend

Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.

begeleiding

(music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

begeren

(transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

begerig

(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

begerigheid

Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.

begeven

(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]

begieten

(transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

begiftigen

(transitive, usually in the, _, passive) To naturally furnish (with something).

begin

That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

beginletter

The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).

beginneling

(obsolete) a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge

beginnen

(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

beginnend

In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

beginner

A new member of an organization.

beginnetje

(wiki) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

beginsel

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.

begoochelen

(transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

begraafplaats

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

begrafenis

The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

begrafenisondernemer

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

begraven

Placed in a grave at a burial.

begrazen

(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

begrensd

(analysis, of a set) That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.

begrenzen

(transitive) To put a border on something.

begrenzing

Something that constrains; a restriction.

begrepen

(radio, _, telecommunications, procedure word) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

begrepen?

(sometimes, offensive) Used by a speaker to confirm that the listener has understood something said to the latter: did you hear me?, get it?, understood?

begrijpelijk

Able to be comprehended.

begrijpen

To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.

begrip

Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment

begripvol

Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.

begroeiing

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

begroeting

A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.

begunstigde

(especially, trust law) One who benefits from the distribution, especially out of a trust or estate.

begunstigen

(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to [from 15th c.]

beha

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

behaaglijk

Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.

behaagziek

Of or relating to a young, flirtatious girl.

behagen

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

behalen

(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.

behalve

In the absence of; without; except. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

behalve dat

Otherwise; else.

behameren

(rare) To beat into shape with a hammer. [from 1598]

behandelaar

(literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.

behandelen

(obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.

behandeling

(obsolete) Management; treatment.

behang

(countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).

behangen

(transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

behangpapier

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

behangselpapier

(uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

behapbaar

Capable of being managed or controlled.

behartigen

(transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

beheer

(obsolete) Management; treatment.

beheerbaar

Capable of being managed or controlled.

beheerder

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

beheersbaar

Able to be controlled; subject to regulation or command.

beheersen

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

beheersing

(countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.

beheerst

(of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.