Vertrokken

Vertrokken is the past participle of the Dutch verb vertrekken, meaning to depart or leave a place. It denotes that someone or something has already left and is typically used with the auxiliary zijn to form perfect tenses. In everyday usage, it appears in statements about travel, moving on, or the end of a journey. Examples in Dutch include: We zijn vertrokken. De reizigers zijn vertrokken naar Parijs.

Forms and usage: The present tense forms are ik vertrek, jij vertrekt, hij/zij/u vertrekt, wij vertrekken, jullie vertrekken, zij vertrekken. The simple past is vertrok; the past participle is vertrokken. In the perfect tense, the auxiliary is 'zijn', as in Wij zijn vertrokken. This construction is common for intransitive verbs that describe movement or change of location.

Etymology and notes: Vertrokken comes from vertrek- with the prefix ver-, indicating departure or a change of location. The past participle is formed without the usual ge- prefix that many Dutch past participles take for prefixed verbs; vertrekken is thus part of a subset of verbs whose participle appears without ge-.

See also: vertrekken, vertrok, departure, Dutch verb conjugation.