lopen

lopen (plural lopens)

1. (Bhutan) A teacher or master.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloːpə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: lo‧pen
• Rhymes: -oːpən

From Middle Dutch lôpen, from Old Dutch lōpan, *loupan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run”).

• loopen (obsolete)

lopen

1. (intransitive, chiefly Belgium) to run, go fast on one's own legs

   Synonyms: hardlopen, hollen, rennen

   Ik ben naar de stad gelopen.

   I ran to the city.

2. (intransitive, chiefly Belgium) to run, cover distance, follow a track etc.

   Synonyms: hardlopen, hollen, rennen

   Hij heeft daar veel gelopen.

   He did a lot of running there.

3. (intransitive, chiefly Netherlands) to walk, go somewhere regardless of speed

   Synonyms: gaan, stappen, wandelen

   We kunnen naar de supermarkt lopen om boodschappen te doen.

   We can walk to the supermarket to do some shopping.

   Hij loopt elke ochtend naar zijn werk.

   He walks to his workplace every morning.

   Ik ben naar de stad gelopen.

   I walked to the city.

4. (intransitive, chiefly Netherlands) to walk in general

   Synonyms: gaan, stappen, wandelen

   De kinderen zijn buiten aan het lopen.

   The children are outside walking.

   Zij loopt graag in het park om van de natuur te genieten.

   She likes to walk in the park to enjoy nature.

   Hij heeft daar veel gelopen.

   He did a lot of walking there.

5. (intransitive) to stretch, to run (to extend in space or through a range) (often of relatively elongated objects or constructs)

   De rivier loopt dwars door de stad.

   The river runs straight through the city.

   De weg loopt helemaal tot aan de kust.

   The road extends all the way to the coast.

6. (intransitive) to be current, activated, in progress

   Het contract loopt binnenkort af.

   The contract will be ending soon.

   De aanbieding loopt nog tot het einde van de maand.

   The offer is valid until the end of the month.

   De rechtzaak tegen de crimineel loopt al een tijdje.

   The lawsuit against the criminal has been in progress for a while already.

7. (intransitive) to be doing or functioning (well or poorly), to progress

   De onderhandelingen lopen soepel.

   The negotiations are progressing smoothly.

   Het project loopt op schema.

   The project is on track.

   Zijn nieuwe project loopt goed.

   His new project is doing well.

8. (intransitive) to lose liquid: drip, gush, leak

   Synonyms: lekken, druppen

   Er is een lek in de kraan en het water loopt langzaam weg.

   There's a leak in the faucet, and the water is slowly dripping away.

   Toen het vat viel, begon het bier eruit te lopen en maakte een grote puinhoop.

   When the barrel fell, the beer started to gush out, creating a big mess.

9. (auxiliary, with te) Forms a continuous aspect. Although it carries an implication of walking, this is vague and not emphasized.

   Wat loop jij daar te doen?

   What are you doing there?

In Flanders, the word usually means "to run", while in the Netherlands it usually means "to walk". An identical phrase will thus be interpreted differently depending on the area where the speaker comes from. In Netherlands, rennen is the common word for run.

• Afrikaans: loop
• Negerhollands: loop, loo, lo, lu
• Skepi Creole Dutch: lop, louphe, luffi, loup

From Middle Dutch loope, lopin (perhaps cognate with French), presumably a diminutive of loop (“jump”), cognate with Old English leap.

• loope
• loop

lopen m (uncountable, diminutive loopje n)

1. A dry measure of content
2. An apparently larger land measure

• loopzaad
• loopense

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lopen

1. plural of loop

• Polen

Singular instructive of now dialectal loppi. Probably influenced by loppu (“end”) (which is itself derived from loppi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlopen/, [ˈlo̞pe̞n]
• Rhymes: -open
• Syllabification^(key): lo‧pen

lopen (not comparable)

1. an intensifier used with a small number of adjectives, usually with a negative connotation; altogether, to death

   Olen lopen kyllästynyt tähän paikkaan!

   I'm fed up to here with this place! / I'm sick to death of this place!

2. (dialectal, Central Ostrobothnia) Synonym of lopulta (“ultimately, in the end”).

lopen most commonly appears in a few fixed phrases: lopen uupunut, "exhausted"; lopen kyllästynyt, "fed up", "had enough".

lopen

1. genitive/accusative singular of loppi

• “lopen”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022, →ISSN.

• “lopen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• pelon

• loupen (New Saxon Spelling)

From Middle Low German lôpen, from Old Saxon hlōpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”).

Cognate with Dutch lopen, German laufen (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe, English leap, Danish løbe, Swedish löpa (“to run”).

• IPA^(key): [loːpm̩]
• IPA^(key): [lɔʊ̯pm̩] ˈmerger of /oː/ and /ɔʊ̯/'

lopen (past singular leep, past participle lopen, auxiliary verb hebben, wesen)

1. to leap, run

From Old Dutch lōpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run”).

lôpen

1. to run (on foot)
2. to go, to run, to move
3. to run, to flow
4. to go, to stretch (of roads, rivers etc.)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: lopen
  • Afrikaans: loop
  • Negerhollands: loop, loo, lo, lu
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: lop, louphe, luffi, loup
• Limburgish: loupe

• “lopen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lopen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old Saxon hlōpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną.

• (originally) IPA^(key): /lɔːpən/

lôpen

1. to run, to sprint, to hurry, to haste
2. to run, to flow
3. to run, to total, to amount to
4. to happen, to occur
5. to live, to spend one's life or time

Declined as a class 7 strong verb.

• Low German: lopen