botten

See also: bøtten and Botten

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtə(n)/
• Hyphenation: bot‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɔtən

Etymology 1

Unknown, perhaps a variant of boten.

Alternative forms

• butten

Verb

botten (archaic outside Belgium)

1. (intransitive) to bump, to collide
2. (transitive) to push
3. (transitive) to strike

Inflection

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

botten

1. plural of bot

Anagrams

• betont

Luxembourgish

Verb

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

1. (transitive or intransitive) to eat

Middle English

Noun

botten

1. plural of bat

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

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

Declension of botten
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	botten	bottnen	bottnar	bottnarna
Genitive	bottens	bottnens	bottnars	bottnarnas

Derived terms

• bottennapp
• havsbotten
• Västerbotten
• Österbotten

 

Further reading

• 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

Noun

botten

1. definite singular of bot

References

• botten in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• botten in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• botten in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

West Frisian

Noun

botten

1. plural of bot