See also: főút, Fout, and FOUT

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch faute, from Old French faute. The adjectival sense developed later, replacing older foutief.

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Noun

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fout f (plural fouten, diminutive foutje n)

  1. error, mistake
    Hij maakte een kleine fout in de berekening.
    He made a small error in the calculation.
    Ze realiseerden zich dat ze een foutje hadden gemaakt in hun planning.
    They realized they had made a mistake in their planning.
  2. fault, defect
    De monteur repareerde de auto en loste het foutje op.
    The mechanic fixed the car and corrected the fault.
    Er was een technische fout in het computersysteem waardoor het niet goed functioneerde.
    There was a technical defect in the computer system that caused it to malfunction.
    De fabrikant heeft de fout in het productieproces hersteld.
    The manufacturer corrected the fault in the production process.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: fout
  • Negerhollands: faut, fout, vout
  • Papiamentu: fout
  • Sranan Tongo: fowtu

Adjective

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fout (comparative fouter, superlative foutst)

  1. wrong
  2. (colloquial) unfashionable, cheesy, inappropriate
  3. (chiefly historical) active in or collaborating with far-right movements, especially Nazism
    De burgemeester van dit stadje was fout in de oorlog.
    The mayor of this town was a Nazi collaborator during the war.

Declension

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Declension of fout
uninflected fout
inflected foute
comparative fouter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial fout fouter het foutst
het foutste
indefinite m./f. sing. foute foutere foutste
n. sing. fout fouter foutste
plural foute foutere foutste
definite foute foutere foutste
partitive fouts fouters

Descendants

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fout

  1. third-person singular present indicative of foutre

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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From French foutre (to mock), compare Haitian Creole fout.

Verb

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fout

  1. to mock
  2. to give (a push)

References

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  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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fout

  1. inflection of fouen:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Middle English

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Noun

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fout

  1. Alternative form of fot

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English faute, from Anglo-Norman faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fout

  1. fault
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 108:
      An that was a fout,
      And that was a fault.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40