tongelen

Dutch

Etymology

From tong (“tongue”) +‎ -elen.

Verb

tongelen

  1. (of animals) to stick out or flick the tongue briefly
    Slangen ruiken door te tongelen. ― Snakes smell by flicking the tongue.
    Honden tongelen soms uit stress. ― Dogs sometimes stick out their tongue briefly due to stress.

Inflection
Inflection of tongelen (weak)
infinitive tongelen
past singular tongelde
past participle getongeld
infinitive tongelen
gerund tongelen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular tongeltongelde
2nd person sing. (jij) tongelttongelde
2nd person sing. (u) tongelttongelde
2nd person sing. (gij) tongelttongelde
3rd person singular tongelttongelde
plural tongelentongelden
subjunctive sing.1 tongeletongelde
subjunctive plur.1 tongelentongelden
imperative sing. tongel
imperative plur.1 tongelt
participles tongelendgetongeld
1) Archaic.
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