outen
See also: Outen
English
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editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.
Preposition
editouten
- (archaic or dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker[1], All-Story Cavalier Weekly:
- […] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.
- 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
- And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’
Adjective
editouten (comparative more outen, superlative most outen)
Derived terms
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editVerb
editouten (third-person singular simple present outens, present participle outening, simple past and past participle outened)
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
- 2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017:
- I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.
- 2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274:
- When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.
Anagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English out (verb).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editouten (weak, third-person singular present outet, past tense outete, past participle geoutet, auxiliary haben)
- (reflexive, colloquial) to out oneself (reveal oneself as having a certain secret)
- 2023 January 4, Gabriele Lesser, “Justiz in Polen: Plädoyer für die Todesstrafe”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[2], →ISSN:
- Der polnische Regierungschef Mateusz Morawiecki outet sich als Fan der Todesstrafe. Die Opposition reagiert empört, aber ihre Argumente sind dünn.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (LGBT) to out (reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual)
- Meine Schwester hat mich bei meinen Eltern geoutet!
- My sister outed me to my parents!
- (reflexive, LGBT) to come out of the closet, come out
- Wann hast du dich geoutet?
- When did you come out?
Conjugation
editinfinitive | outen | ||||
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present participle | outend | ||||
past participle | geoutet | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich oute | wir outen | i | ich oute | wir outen |
du outest | ihr outet | du outest | ihr outet | ||
er outet | sie outen | er oute | sie outen | ||
preterite | ich outete | wir outeten | ii | ich outete1 | wir outeten1 |
du outetest | ihr outetet | du outetest1 | ihr outetet1 | ||
er outete | sie outeten | er outete1 | sie outeten1 | ||
imperative | out (du) oute (du) |
outet (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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