Basque edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /eten/, [e̞.t̪ẽ̞n]

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

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

  1. break, separate
  2. stop, interrupt

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

eten

  1. genitive plural of eta

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch ēten, from Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti.

Verb edit

eten

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Inflection edit
Inflection 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 eet at
2nd person sing. (jij) eet at
2nd person sing. (u) eet at
2nd person sing. (gij) eet at
3rd person singular eet at
plural eten aten
subjunctive sing.1 ete ate
subjunctive plur.1 eten aten
imperative sing. eet
imperative plur.1 eet
participles etend gegeten
1) Archaic.
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  • Afrikaans: eet
  • Jersey Dutch: eîte
  • Negerhollands: jeet, jit, yet
    • Virgin Islands Creole: jet, jeet
  • Petjo: eten

Etymology 2 edit

Gerund of the verb eten.

Noun edit

eten n (uncountable, diminutive etentje n)

  1. food
  2. dinner
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Romanization edit

eten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of エテン

Low German edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Verb edit

eten (past singular eet, past participle eten, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to eat

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Middle Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Old Dutch etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Verb edit

ēten

  1. to eat

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Middle English edit

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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

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)

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Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Equivalent to eter (ether) +‎ -en

Noun edit

eten

  1. (organic chemistry) ethene, ethylene

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