kaput
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /kəˈpuːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: caput (sometimes)
- Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
Adjective
editkaput (not comparable)
- (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
editTranslations
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Danish
editEtymology
editFrom German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).
Adjective
editkaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)
References
edit- “kaput” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editkaput (not comparable) (informal)
- (predicative only) kaput
Declension
editAdverb
editkaput (not comparable) (colloquial)
Further reading
edit- “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
editGurindji
editNoun
editkaput
References
editHungarian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
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Interjection
editkaput
- (colloquial) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)
Adjective
editkaput (not generally comparable, comparative kaputabb, superlative legkaputabb)
- (colloquial, predicatively) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)
- Synonyms: bekrepált, bedöglött, betojt, tönkrement, elromlott
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | kaput | kaputok |
accusative | kaputot | kaputokat |
dative | kaputnak | kaputoknak |
instrumental | kaputtal | kaputokkal |
causal-final | kaputért | kaputokért |
translative | kaputtá | kaputokká |
terminative | kaputig | kaputokig |
essive-formal | kaputként | kaputokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kaputban | kaputokban |
superessive | kaputon | kaputokon |
adessive | kaputnál | kaputoknál |
illative | kaputba | kaputokba |
sublative | kaputra | kaputokra |
allative | kaputhoz | kaputokhoz |
elative | kaputból | kaputokból |
delative | kaputról | kaputokról |
ablative | kaputtól | kaputoktól |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
kaputé | kaputoké |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
kaputéi | kaputokéi |
Etymology 2
editkapu (“gate”) + -t (accusative suffix)
Noun
editkaput
- accusative singular of kapu
- Nyisd ki a kaput! ― Open the gate!
Etymology 3
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Noun
editkaput (plural kaputok)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | kaput | kaputok |
accusative | kaputot | kaputokat |
dative | kaputnak | kaputoknak |
instrumental | kaputtal | kaputokkal |
causal-final | kaputért | kaputokért |
translative | kaputtá | kaputokká |
terminative | kaputig | kaputokig |
essive-formal | kaputként | kaputokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kaputban | kaputokban |
superessive | kaputon | kaputokon |
adessive | kaputnál | kaputoknál |
illative | kaputba | kaputokba |
sublative | kaputra | kaputokra |
allative | kaputhoz | kaputokhoz |
elative | kaputból | kaputokból |
delative | kaputról | kaputokról |
ablative | kaputtól | kaputoktól |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
kaputé | kaputoké |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
kaputéi | kaputokéi |
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
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1st person sing. | kaputom | kaput{{{3}}}m |
2nd person sing. | kaputod | kaput{{{3}}}d |
3rd person sing. | kaputa | kaput{{{3}}} |
1st person plural | kaputunk | kaput{{{3}}}nk |
2nd person plural | kaputotok | kaput{{{3}}}tok |
3rd person plural | kaputuk | kaput{{{3}}}k |
Further reading
edit- (kaput): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- (frock coat): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Kavalan
editNoun
editkaput
Synonyms
editFurther reading
edit- Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006) Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)[3], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 117
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German kaputt, from French être capot, from Old French capote, from cape, from Late Latin cappa.
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editkaput
Further reading
editSakizaya
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkaput
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian cappotto.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkàpūt m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | kàpūt | kaputi |
genitive | kapúta | kaputa |
dative | kaputu | kaputima |
accusative | kaput | kapute |
vocative | kapute | kaputi |
locative | kaputu | kaputima |
instrumental | kaputom | kaputima |
See also
editSundanese
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaput (“to tie or clasp together; to button”).
Verb
editkaput (Sundanese script ᮊᮕᮥᮒ᮪, active ngaput, passive dikaput)
- to sew
Derived terms
edit- kaputan (“seam; suture”)
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote, ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of şef.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | kaput | kaputlar |
definite accusative | kaputu | kaputları |
dative | kaputa | kaputlara |
locative | kaputta | kaputlarda |
ablative | kaputtan | kaputlardan |
genitive | kaputun | kaputların |
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- Rhymes:English/ʊt
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- ckv:People
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- Rhymes:Polish/ut
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