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behandle

behandle

English

Verb

behandle (third-person singular simple present behandles, present participle behandling, simple past and past participle behandled)

  1. (transitive) To handle all about; take (up) in one's hands; care for; deal with; treat.
    • 1892, Ménie Muriel Dowie, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A girl in the Karpathians:
      In England I know a household where, after the eight o'clock breakfast, it is usual to behandle one's skeins, find one's knitting, and continue the long even rounds of the stocking begun yesterday, or copy patiently the completed gusset in the sleeve of a spencer.

German

Verb

behandle

  1. First-person singular present of behandeln.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of behandeln.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of behandeln.
  4. Imperative singular of behandeln.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German behandeln

Verb

behandle (imperative behandl or behandle, present tense behandler, passive behandles, simple past and past participle behandla or behandlet)

  1. to treat

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German behandeln

Alternative forms

Verb

behandle (present tense behandlar, past tense behandla, past participle behandla, passive infinitive behandlast, present participle behandlande, imperative behandle/behandl)

  1. to treat

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