slapend

Slapend is a Dutch adjective and present participle derived from the verb slapen, meaning to sleep. It describes a state of sleep or the act of being asleep, and can be used to refer to people, animals, or things in a sleeping condition. The term is used in both predicative and attributive positions, conveying the ongoing nature of the sleep.

In grammar, slapend is typically used predicatively after a linking verb to indicate the subject’s state (for example, after forms of "zijn" or other state verbs). When used attributively before a noun, the form becomes slapende to describe the noun as being in a sleeping state (as in the slapende patiënt). The word is part of a broader set of participial adjectives in Dutch that describe ongoing actions or states, and its form can interact with number and definiteness according to standard Dutch adjective agreement rules.

Etymology and cognates: slapend comes from slapen, the Dutch verb for sleep. It shares roots with related Germanic terms for sleep and has cognates in other languages within the same family, reflecting a common Indo-European heritage around the concept of sleep.

See also: Slapen, Slaap, Sleep (in other languages). The term is primarily a language and usage note within Dutch grammar and lexicon, and it is commonly found in dictionaries, linguistic guides, and general language usage resources.