Verklikken

to betray, to give away, to tattle Iconspeaker_3
[verb]
[ver-klik-te, ver-klikt]

“Verklikken” or “klikken” is to give away information about a person to someone else. The informer is called a “verklikker”. The verb is often used when it concerns petty tale-telling by children. More serious betrayal is called “verraad”, the person who betrays is a “verrader” (“traitor”), and the verb is “verraden” (“to betray”). A synonymous verb which is slightly more informal than “verraden” is “verlinken”. Another verb which also means to reveal something is “verklappen”. Unlike “verklikken”, “verraden”, and “verlinken”, this verb doesn’t necessarily have a negative connotation.

Examples:
– “Het meisje verklikte tegen haar moeder dat haar broertje de koektrommel had leeg gegeten.” 
(“The girl told her mother that her brother emptied the cookie box.”)

– “Haar beste vriendin gaat vreemd met haar man; ze voelt zich verraden.”
(“Her best friend cheats on her with her husband; she feels betrayed.”)

– “In de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden Joodse families soms verraden door hun eigen buren.”
(“During the Second World War, Jewish families were sometimes betrayed by their own neighbours.”)

– “De crimineel verlinkte zijn handlangers in ruil voor strafvermindering.”
(“The criminal gave away his accomplices in exchange for a reduction of his sentence.”)

– “Je mag niemand verklappen wat we gaan doen, het is een verrassing.”
(“You cannot tell anyone what we will do, it’s a surprise.”)

– “In 2002 werd de kliklijn “Meld misdaad anoniem” landelijk ingevoerd.”

(“In 2002, the telephone number “Report crime anonymously” was introduced in the entire country.” Please note that “kliklijn” means “squeal-line”.)

Related words:
– “[Iemand] verlinken”: to betray [someone], to disclose against [verb] [verlinkte, verlinkt].
– “[Iets of iemand] verraden”: to betray [something or someone] [verb] [verried, verraden].
– “Verraad”: betrayal [noun] [het verraad, no plural].
– “Verrader”: betrayer [noun] [de verrader, de verraders].
– “Verklikker”: informer [noun] [de verklikker, de verklikkers].
– “[Iets] klikken”: to reveal [something], to tell [verb] [klikte, verklikt].
– “Kliklijn”: phonenumber that you can call if you want to reveal secret information [noun] [de kliklijn, de kliklijnen].