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Etymology

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Borrowed from German verfilmen. Equivalent to film +‎ ver- -en.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vərˈfɪl.mə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: ver‧fil‧men

Verb

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verfilmen

  1. (transitive) to make a film of, to turn into a movie [from 1913]
    • 1913 March 14, "De zegetocht van de film", tr. from German, in Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië, Vol. 18, No. 61, folio 3, page 1; a translated and redacted article from Das Echo.
      En eindelijk worden alle levensverrichtingen „verfilmd” en blijft er van de taal, van het gesproken woord, niemendal meer over...
      And finally all activities in life will be turned into films and of language, of the spoken word, nothing at all will remain any more...
  2. (transitive) to store on microform [from 20th c.]

Conjugation

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Conjugation of verfilmen (weak, prefixed)
infinitive verfilmen
past singular verfilmde
past participle verfilmd
infinitive verfilmen
gerund verfilmen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular verfilm verfilmde
2nd person sing. (jij) verfilmt, verfilm2 verfilmde
2nd person sing. (u) verfilmt verfilmde
2nd person sing. (gij) verfilmt verfilmde
3rd person singular verfilmt verfilmde
plural verfilmen verfilmden
subjunctive sing.1 verfilme verfilmde
subjunctive plur.1 verfilmen verfilmden
imperative sing. verfilm
imperative plur.1 verfilmt
participles verfilmend verfilmd
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

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German

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Etymology

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    From ver- +‎ Film +‎ -en.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    verfilmen (weak, third-person singular present verfilmt, past tense verfilmte, past participle verfilmt, auxiliary haben)

    1. to make a film of

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    Further reading

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    • verfilmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
    • verfilmen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
    • verfilmen” in Duden online