kloppen

== Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈklɔ.pə(n)/ Hyphenation: klop‧pen Rhymes: -ɔpən === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch cloppen, from Old Dutch *cloppōn, probably onomatopoeic. Cognate with German klopfen and kloppen. ==== Verb ==== kloppen (intransitive) to knock or beat audibly Hij klopt op de deur. ― He knocks on the door. (intransitive) to defeat Hij is met 5-0 vernederend geklopt. ― He was humiliatingly beaten 5-0. (intransitive) to pulsate, like a heart (intransitive) to be correct, to be true Klopt het dat jij niet van pannenkoeken houdt? ― Is it true that you don't like pancakes? (intransitive) to fit, work out, like a calculation; to make sense, to be true Ik had Stephen gevraagd om een vertaling, maar ik weet niet of het echt klopt. ― I had asked Stephen for a translation, but I don't know if it truly makes sense. (intransitive) to lead the devoutly professed, unmarried but non-congregational life of a Catholic klop (intransitive, transitive, Suriname, vulgar) to jerk off, to masturbate ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Berbice Creole Dutch: klup Negerhollands: klop Petjo: kloppen → Caribbean Javanese: klop → Indonesian: klop → Sranan Tongo: kropu, klop → Caribbean Javanese: klop, ngeklop === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== kloppen plural of klop == German == === Etymology === Central and Low German form (and doublet) of klopfen (“to knock”). The verb was adopted into standard German, in its rougher sense, via the modern vernaculars. An older standard word is the derivative Klöppel (“clapper”). Cognate with Dutch kloppen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈklɔpən/, [ˈklɔpən], [ˈklɔpm̩] Hyphenation: klop‧pen === Verb === kloppen (weak, third-person singular present kloppt, past tense kloppte, past participle gekloppt, auxiliary haben) (informal, Germany, reflexive) to fight, to engage in a fistfight Synonym: prügeln (informal, Germany, transitive or intransitive) to thump, to hit hard [with accusative ‘something, e.g. a nail’ and in (+ accusative) ‘into something’; or with auf (+ accusative) ‘on something’] Synonyms: hauen, schlagen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Kloppe Klöppel rumkloppen, herumkloppen verkloppen Klopperei ==== Related terms ==== klopfen === Further reading === “kloppen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “kloppen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “kloppen” in Duden online “kloppen” in OpenThesaurus.de