druppelt

Druppelt is a Dutch present-tense verb form meaning "drips" or "is dripping." It is the third-person singular form of the verb druppelen, which means to drip or to be dripping. Example: Het water druppelt uit de kraan. The base noun druppel means a single drop of liquid, and the related adjective form is druppelend.

The word originates in Dutch, built from the noun druppel with the -en infinitive ending. It is closely related to other Germanic words for droplet in languages such as German Tropfen and English drop, reflecting a common semantic core around small amounts of liquid.

In usage, druppelt appears in weather descriptions, narratives of leaking objects, or discussions of condensation, where a liquid is described as emitting small amounts of liquid over time. The form is standard in contemporary Dutch and would be understood by speakers as a routine description of dripping.

Outside of Dutch-language contexts, druppelt is rarely encountered except in linguistic texts discussing Dutch morphology or in translations of Dutch prose. It is not a widely used English term and has no established technical meaning beyond its role as a grammatical form in Dutch.