kaput

English

Alternative forms

• kaputt

Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /kəˈpuːt/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt

Adjective

kaput (not comparable)

1. (informal) Out of order; not working.

   Synonyms: broken; see also Thesaurus:out of order

   My car went kaput.

   His career is kaput.

   Her marriage went kaput.

   • 1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture):

     German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT.
     Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.

   • 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.

Derived terms

• kapoof
• kaputness

Translations

out of order — see also out of order

• Afrikaans: kapoet
• Catalan: caput (ca)
• Danish: kaput
• Dutch: kapot (nl)
• Finnish: kaput (fi)
• French: fini (fr) m, capout (fr), en panne (fr), en carafe (fr)
• German: kaputt (de)
• Kyrgyz: өлүм (ky) (ölüm), өлүү (ky) (ölüü), жок болуу (ky) (jok boluu), куруп кетүү (ky) (kurup ketüü)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kaputt

  Nynorsk: kaputt

• Portuguese: enguiçado (pt) m, pifado (pt) m
• Romanian: stricat (ro), distrus (ro)
• Russian: капу́т (ru) (kapút) (colloquial)
• Swedish: kaputt (sv)
• Thai: เจ๊ง (th) (jéng), พัง (th) (pang)
• Yiddish: קאַפּוט (kaput)

Danish

Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

Adjective

kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)

1. broken, dysfunctional

References

• “kaput” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑput/, [ˈkɑ̝put̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑput
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧put

Adjective

kaput (not comparable) (informal)

1. (predicative only) kaput

Declension

Indeclinable

Adverb

kaput (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. kaput

Further reading

• “kaput”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• kupat, putka

Hungarian

Etymology

kapu +‎ -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒput]
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

Noun

kaput

1. accusative singular of kapu

   Nyisd ki a kaput! ― Open the gate!

Kavalan

Noun

kaput

1. friend

Synonyms

• luksan

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt, from French être capot, from Old French capote, from cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈput/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aput
• Syllabification: ka‧put

Interjection

kaput

1. kaput!

Further reading

• kaput in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈput/, [ka.ˈput]

Noun

kaput

1. companion; mate; partner

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎpuːt/
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

Noun

kàpūt m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)

1. coat

Declension

Declension of kaput

	singular	plural
nominative	kàpūt	kaputi
genitive	kapúta	kaputa
dative	kaputu	kaputima
accusative	kaput	kapute
vocative	kapute	kaputi
locative	kaputu	kaputima
instrumental	kaputom	kaputima

See also

• mantil
• ogrtač
• kabanica

Sundanese

Verb

kaput

1. to sew

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.put/

Noun

kaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)

1. hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kaput
Definite accusative	kaputu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kaput	kaputlar
Definite accusative	kaputu	kaputları
Dative	kaputa	kaputlara
Locative	kaputta	kaputlarda
Ablative	kaputtan	kaputlardan
Genitive	kaputun	kaputların