Uitstroomde

Uitstroomde is a Dutch word that appears most often as a verb form derived from uitstromen, meaning to flow out or to outflow. It can describe an event in the past when something flowed out from a container, a region, or an organization. In this sense, uitstroomde signals a completed outflow that has already taken place.

In standard modern Dutch, the simple past tense of uitstromen is typically written as two words: stroomde uit. The past participle used as an adjective is uitgestroomd, which is common in contexts describing groups or items that have left, such as uitgestroomde studenten or uitgestroomde werknemers. The single-word form uitstroomde is not the normative past tense in contemporary usage and may appear in older texts, in dialectal writing, or in certain quoted forms.

The term is used in both literal and figurative contexts. In hydrology or engineering, uitstroming (outflow) is the more common noun, while uitstroomde may appear in prose to describe a past outflow event. In demography or labor economics, discussions about migration, exodus, or employee turnover often rely on the related adjective uitgestroomd to describe people who have left a group.

See also:

- Uitstroom (outflow)

- Uitgestroomd (past participle used adjectivally)

- Uitgestroomde arbeiders/uitgestroomde studenten (examples of left-behind groups)

Note: While uitstroomde can be encountered in some texts, the standard and widely accepted forms for describing past outflow are two-word phrases (stroomde uit) and the adjective uitgestroomd.