bedienen

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch bedienen. Equivalent to be- +‎ dienen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bəˈdinə(n)/ Hyphenation: be‧die‧nen Rhymes: -inən === Verb === bedienen (transitive) to be of assistance to, to serve (transitive) to serve (at a restaurant) (transitive) to operate (a device) (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to administer the last sacraments to (reflexive, with prepositional object) to utilise, to make use [with van ‘of’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== bedienaar bediende bediener bediening ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: bedien == German == === Etymology === From be- +‎ dienen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [bəˈdiːnən] === Verb === bedienen (weak, third-person singular present bedient, past tense bediente, past participle bedient, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to serve (transitive) to operate (transitive or intransitive, card games) to play a card according to the grouping of the first card of a trick; to follow suit (reflexive) to help oneself [with von ‘to’] Synonyms: zugreifen, sich auftun (reflexive, formal) to make use of [with genitive ‘something’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Bedienen Bediener Bedienung bedienend bedient ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “bedienen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “bedienen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “bedienen” in Duden online “bedienen” in OpenThesaurus.de == Middle Dutch == === Etymology === From be- +‎ dienen. === Verb === bedienen to serve, to be useful ==== Inflection ==== This verb needs an inflection-table template. ==== Descendants ==== Dutch: bedienen Afrikaans: bedien Limburgish: bedene === Further reading === Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bedienen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN