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eten

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Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eten/, [e̞.t̪ẽ̞n]

Etymology 1

Verb

eten ? (imperfect participle eteten, future participle etengo or etenen, short form eten, verbal noun etete)

  1. break, separate
  2. stop, interrupt

Etymology 2

Noun

eten

  1. genitive plural of eta

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb

eten

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Conjugation
Derived terms
verbs
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eet
  • Jersey Dutch: eîte
  • Negerhollands: jeet, jit, yet
    • Virgin Islands Creole: jet, jeet
  • Petjo: eten

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

  1. food
  2. dinner
Derived terms
Descendants

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

eten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ēten, from Old Saxon etan.

Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Nowegian ete, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

Pronunciation

Verb

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to eat

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present ...
Conjugation of eten (strong verb)
infinitive eten
present preterite
1st person singular eet eet
2nd person singular itts(t), etts(t) eets(t)
3rd person singular itt, ett eet
plural eet eten
imperative
singular itt, eet
plural eet
present past
participle eten(d) eëten, geëten, eten
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Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Verb

ēten

  1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

eten (third-person singular simple present eteth, present participle etynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative et, past participle eten)

  1. To eat, devour
  2. To consume or have a meal
  3. To swallow, ingest
  4. (figurative) To derive might from something
  5. To gnaw, scrape at
  6. To destroy, devastate (a person or of an object)

Conjugation

1 Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

References

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

eten m

  1. Alternative form of eoten

Declension

Strong a-stem:

More information singular, plural ...
singular plural
nominative eten etenas
accusative eten etenas
genitive etenes etena
dative etene etenum
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References

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to eter (ether) + -en

Noun

eten

  1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms

Further reading

Anagrams

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