krijgen
Meaning
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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
Frequency
Hyphenated as
krij‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkrɛi̯ɣə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch crigen, from Old Dutch *crīgan, from Proto-West Germanic *krīgan. Cognate to German kriegen (“to get”).
New
krijg
-
war
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Sentences
Daarnaast moeten ook anderen de mogelijkheid krijgen hun welvaartspositie te verbeteren .
In addition, welfare ambitions should also be made possible for others.