eten

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeːtə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: eten
  • Rhymes: -eːtən

Etymology 1

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

Verb

eten

  1. (transitive) to eat
Inflection
Inflection of eten (strong class 5)
infinitive eten
past singular at
past participle gegeten
infinitive eten
gerund eten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular eetat
2nd person sing. (jij) eetat
2nd person sing. (u) eetat
2nd person sing. (gij) eetat
3rd person singular eetat
plural etenaten
subjunctive sing.1 eteate
subjunctive plur.1 etenaten
imperative sing. eet
imperative plur.1 eet
participles etendgegeten
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

  1. food
  2. dinner
Derived terms

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

eten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. Cognate with Dutch eten, West Frisian ite, German essen, English eat, Danish æde, Swedish äta, Icelandic éta.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeːtən/

Verb

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

  1. to eat

Conjugation
Conjugation of eten (strong verb)
infinitive eten
indicative 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 present —
singular itt, eet
plural eet
participle present past
eten eten
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-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb

ēten

  1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: eten
  • Limburgish: aete

Further reading
  • “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • æten, etenn, eeten

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛːtən/

Verb

eten

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

Conjugation
Conjugation of eten (strong class 5)
infinitive (to) eten
indicative present past
1st person singular et, ete at(e)
2nd person singular etest, etst atest, atst
3rd person singular eteth, eteþ, ett at(e)
plural eten, eteth eten, aten
subjunctive present past
singular ete ete
plural ete(n) eten
imperative present
singular et
plural eteth, eteþ
participle present past
eting(e), etende (y)eten

Descendants

References

Swedish

Noun

eten

  1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms
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