botten

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See also: bøtten and Botten

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown, perhaps a variant of boten.

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

botten (archaic outside Belgium)

  1. (intransitive) to bump, to collide
  2. (transitive) to push
  3. (transitive) to strike
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of botten (weak)
infinitive botten
past singular botte
past participle gebot
infinitive botten
gerund botten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bot botte
2nd person sing. (jij) bot botte
2nd person sing. (u) bot botte
2nd person sing. (gij) bot botte
3rd person singular bot botte
plural botten botten
subjunctive sing.1 botte botte
subjunctive plur.1 botten botten
imperative sing. bot
imperative plur.1 bot
participles bottend gebot
1) Archaic.

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

botten

  1. plural of bot

Anagrams[edit]

Luxembourgish[edit]

Verb[edit]

botten (third-person singular present bott, past participle gebott, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to eat

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

botten

  1. plural of bat

Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Swedish butn, botn, from Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

botten c

  1. bottom (lowest part; lowest part of a container; bed of a body of water)
  2. (colloquial) something very bad
    Det kändes botten
    It felt very bad
Declension[edit]
Declension of botten 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative botten bottnen bottnar bottnarna
Genitive bottens bottnens bottnars bottnarnas
Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Annika Karlholm (2019 May 1) “Allra överst låg botten [At the very top was the bottom]”, in isof.se[1] (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, archived from the original on 27 October 2020

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

botten

  1. definite singular of bot

References[edit]

West Frisian[edit]

Noun[edit]

botten

  1. plural of bot