Talk:slapende vulkaan

slapende vulkaan
Two separate words, adj+noun. One could include slapende hond, 'sleeping dog' too.
 * Actually there isn't currently a definition for slapende. Also just says 'to sleep', whereas a dormant volcano isn't literally sleeping of course. Things which aren't alive can't literally sleep. Whether  means "(of a volcano) dormant" I don't know, so we need Dutch speakers, and we have a few of those. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:14, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * is the inflected form of, but most present participles are currently lacking inflection tables and don't have entries for all the forms yet. I would say that can also mean "be dormant" in the more figurative sense, although "slapende vulkaan" does sound somewhat poetic. The more usual way of saying it would be .  13:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * If I look at the examples at dormant, it's not a good translation for slapend (not even as a secondary meaning after sleeping; though dormant bank account might do too). An "inactieve vulkaan" can be a w:dode vulkaan or a "slapende vulkaan", most are "dood" (extinct).
 * Weak keep, idiomatic meaning. --80.114.178.7 21:43, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * My point wasn't the idiom: "slapend" literarily means "dormant", that's not the point, the Dutch use the term "slapende vulkaan" for a volcano that hasn't erupted in quite a while. A dictionary however should be filled with words, not encyclopedic terms: these are two separate words coincidentally put together. You could include "slapende hond" (sleeping, dormant dog) or "slapende man" (sleeping, dormant man) too. --DrJos (talk) 14:57, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * In English "dormant" and "volcano" aren't two words coincidentally put together; "dormant volcano" is more scientific whereas "sleeping volcano" is more allegorical. The question of what the translation of "dormant volcano" into Dutch is is certainly a lexicographic question, not an encyclopedic question.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * If (and that's a big if) English uses "dormant dog" for a "sleeping dog" (as opposed to, say, a dog who did lead a pack, who doesn't lead it now, yet might lead it again), you could be right. For me (and I am Dutch) usually only means, the idiomatic uses in  and  just happen to coincide. --80.114.178.7 20:22, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Last call for comments before I close this as "no consensus to delete". bd2412 T 17:03, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Should appear under vulkaan as a derived term too. Donnanz (talk) 17:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Kept, no consensus to delete. bd2412 T 14:12, 27 May 2014 (UTC)