duperen

Dutch

Etymology

From French duper. By surface analysis, dupe +‎ -eren.

Pronunciation
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Verb

duperen

  1. to victimize, unfairly burden someone with a problem
    Hij dupeert zo al zijn buren. ― He unfairly burdens all his neighbors this way.
    De gedupeerden eisten hun geld terug van de fraudeur. ― The victims demanded their money back from the fraudster.

Usage notes
  • Used for victimization in a legal or social sense, rather than a physical or violent sense (i.e., a murderer does not dupeer anyone).

Inflection
Inflection of duperen (weak)
infinitive duperen
past singular dupeerde
past participle gedupeerd
infinitive duperen
gerund duperen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular dupeerdupeerde
2nd person sing. (jij) dupeertdupeerde
2nd person sing. (u) dupeertdupeerde
2nd person sing. (gij) dupeertdupeerde
3rd person singular dupeertdupeerde
plural duperendupeerden
subjunctive sing.1 duperedupeerde
subjunctive plur.1 duperendupeerden
imperative sing. dupeer
imperative plur.1 dupeert
participles duperendgedupeerd
1) Archaic.

Derived terms
  • dupering
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