beste

See also: Beste and bește

Basque

Adjective

beste

  1. other

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Adjective

beste

  1. Inflected form of best, the superlative of goed

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German

Pronunciation
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Adjective

beste

  1. inflection of gut:
    1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular superlative degree
    2. strong nominative and accusative plural superlative degree
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular superlative degree
    4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular superlative degree

Middle Dutch

Adjective

beste

  1. inflection of best:
    1. masculine nominative singular
    2. feminine and neuter nominative and accusative singular
    3. nominative and accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz (adjective), *batist (adverb).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɛst/

Adjective

beste

  1. best; superlative degree of good
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Adverb

beste

  1. best; superlative degree of wel
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Etymology 2

From Old French beste.

Noun

beste

  1. Alternative form of beeste

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

Noun

beste f (plural bestes)

  1. beast, animal

Descendants

Northern Sami

Pronunciation
  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpeːsːte/

Verb

bēste

  1. inflection of beastit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

beste

  1. definite superlative of god
  2. definite superlative of bra
  3. definite singular and plural of best

Noun

beste n

  1. det beste - the best

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

beste

  1. definite superlative of god
  2. definite superlative of bra
  3. definite singular and plural of best

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).

Noun

beste f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)

  1. beast, animal

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