treuren
Treuren is a Dutch verb meaning to feel deep sorrow, to mourn or to lament. It is used for both personal grieving after a death and for regretting or lamenting events or losses. The phrasing is often with the prepositions om or over, as in treuren om iemand or treuren over een verlies. The term can refer to individual emotion or collective mourning, for example a nation that treurt om slachtoffers.
Treuren is commonly used in formal, literary, or semi-formal contexts; in everyday speech, people may describe
Conjugation (present and past in standard use): Present: ik treur, jij treurt, hij/zij/het treurt; wij/jullie/zij treuren.
Etymology: Treuren is een native Dutch woord met cognaten in andere Germaanse talen en maakt deel uit