Transporteer

Transporteer is a Dutch verb meaning to move goods, people, or data from one place to another, typically as part of a transport operation or logistics process. In ordinary language the verb vervoeren is more common, while transporteren is used in technical or formal contexts. The act can be expressed as het transporteren (the act of transporting). The past participle is getransporteerd, used in passive constructions such as de goederen zijn getransporteerd.

Etymology: The word derives from the French transporter, via Latin transportare, and entered Dutch through the broader family of transport-related verbs, including transporteren and vervoeren.

Usage: Applications include shipping of merchandise, passenger movement, and, in science and information technology, the transfer of information or particles. For example: De goederen worden getransporteerd per schip; De data worden getransporteerd via het netwerk.

Morphology and distinctions: Transporteer belongs to the -eren verb group; its forms vary by subject. The imperative form exists for giving commands (Transporteer dit pakket). The related verbs vervoeren and transporteren express different nuances of moving something from A to B. The word is commonly used in logistics, infrastructure planning, and technical writing, and it appears in passive constructions with getransporteerd and in noun forms such as transport en transporteren.