vreten

• fretten (perhaps a Frisian borrowing)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvreːtə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: vre‧ten
• Rhymes: -eːtən

From Middle Dutch vrēten, from Old Dutch *fretan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną. Corresponds to ver- +‎ eten and thus represents a doublet of vereten.

vreten

1. (transitive) to eat savagely, stuff, hog, wolf

   Synonyms: eten, kanen, fretten (Brabantian)

Conjugation of vreten (strong class 5)
infinitive	vreten
past singular	vrat
past participle	gevreten
infinitive	vreten
gerund	vreten n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	vreet	vrat
2nd person sing. (jij)	vreet	vrat
2nd person sing. (u)	vreet	vrat
2nd person sing. (gij)	vreet	vrat
3rd person singular	vreet	vrat
plural	vreten	vraten
subjunctive sing.1	vrete	vrate
subjunctive plur.1	vreten	vraten
imperative sing.	vreet
imperative plur.1	vreet
participles	vretend	gevreten
1) Archaic.

• Afrikaans: vreet
• Petjo: freten, vreten

Gerund of the verb vreten, by analogy with eten.

vreten n (uncountable)

1. (slang) food

• eten
• (Brabantian) fret

• venter

From Old Dutch *fretan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan.

vrēten

1. to eat savagely or greedily

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: vreten
  • Afrikaans: vreet
• Limburgish: vraete

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

vreten

1. (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of freten (“to eat”)

vreten

1. definite singular of vret