krijg
Meaning
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war
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkrɛi̯x/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch crijch, from Old Dutch *krīg, from Proto-West Germanic *krīg. Cognate to Old High German krig, Middle High German kriec, German Krieg, Old Saxon *krīg, Middle Low German krîch, German Low German Krieg, Old Frisian *krīch, West Frisian kriich.
New
krijgen
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- (transitive) to get, to receive, to come into possession of (anything ranging from concrete to abstract inputs such as news, gift, punishment, et cetera)
- (transitive) to get, to be presented with
- (copulative) to get, to (manage to) cause to become
- (auxiliary) Used to form a passive sentence with a ditransitive verb, with the original indirect object becoming the subject of krijgen.
- (transitive) to catch (a disease), to become ill with
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