eten

Basque

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eten/, [e̞.t̪ẽ̞n]

Verb

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

  1. break, separate
  2. stop, interrupt

Noun

eten

  1. genitive plural of eta

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.tə(n)/
  • audio (Netherlands)(file)
  • Hyphenation: eten
  • Rhymes: -eːtən
  • Homophone: Eethen

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
Inflection
Conjugation 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
  • 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
  • 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-West Germanic *etan.

Verb

ēten

  1. to eat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading
  • “eten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “eten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛːtən/

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
Conjugation of eten (strong class 5)
infinitive (to) eten, ete
present tense past tense
1st-person singular ete at, et
2nd-person singular etest, est ete, ate, at
3rd-person singular eteth, et at, et
subjunctive singular ete ete1, ate1
imperative singular —
plural2 eten, ete eten, ete, aten, ate
imperative plural eteth, ete —
participles etynge, etende eten, ete, yeten, yete

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

Descendants

References

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to eter (“ether”) +‎ -en

Noun

eten

  1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

Synonyms

Further reading

Anagrams
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