Kleurde

Kleurde is the simple past tense of the Dutch verb kleuren, meaning to color. It is used to describe a completed action of adding color to something in narrative prose or in accounts of past events. As a regular verb, its past tense forms are: ik kleurde, jij kleurde, hij kleurde; wij kleurden; jullie kleurden; zij kleurden.

The past participle of kleuren is gekleurd. When used in compound tenses with hebben, you can say bijvoorbeeld ik heb gekleurd, or more commonly, ik heb de muur gekleurd. As an adjective before a noun, the participle appears as gekleurde, for example een gekleurde muur, meaning a colored wall. In passive constructions or in the present perfect, the participle gekleurd is frequently found: de muur is gekleurd.

Examples of usage include: De lucht kleurde oranje boven de horizon toen de zon onderging. De kunstenaar kleurde het doek met felle tinten. De muur is gekleurd met verschillende tonen blauw. These examples illustrate how kleurde functions across narrative past tense and descriptive colouring in Dutch.

Etymology and related terms: kleurde derives from kleur, meaning color, with the standard Dutch past tense suffix -de. Related words include kleur (color), kleuren (to color), en gekleurd (colored). There is no widely recognized separate noun or proper name spelled “Kleurde” in standard references; it is predominantly seen as a verb form in ordinary Dutch usage.