achten

achten

1. dative of achte

   Bar zèinan in achten.

   There are eight of us.

   (literally, “We are in eight.”)

From Middle Dutch achten, from Old Dutch ahton, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtōn. By surface analysis, acht (“attention, heed, consideration”) +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑxtə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ach‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɑxtən

achten

1. (transitive) to regard, consider

   Ik acht hem heel hoog. ― I regard him very highly.

   Hij achtte ons nog geen blik waardig. ― He did not even consider us worthy of a glance.

2. (transitive) to estimate, to reckon

   Hoe waarschijnlijk acht jij dat? ― How probable do you reckon that to be?

• achting

• Afrikaans: ag
• → Papiamentu: aktu, aster

• chante

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxtən/, [ˈʔaxtn̩], [ˈʔaxtən]

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From Middle High German ahten, from Old High German ahtōn, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtōn, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Equivalent to Acht (“attention”) +‎ -en.

achten (weak, third-person singular present achtet, past tense achtete, past participle geachtet, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to care about, to pay attention to [with auf (+ accusative)]
2. (intransitive) to keep an eye on [with auf (+ accusative)]

   Ich achte auf meine Linie.

   I'm trying to watch my weight.

3. (transitive) to respect
4. (transitive) to pay attention to something

• anerkennen
• respektieren

achte +‎ -en

achten

1. inflection of achte:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

• “achten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “achten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “achten” in Duden online
• “achten” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “achten”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German achten.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxtn̩/, /ˈaxtən/

achten (third-person singular simple present acht, past tense acht, past participle acht, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (intransitive, with op) to care about, pay attention to
2. (transitive) to keep an eye on
3. (intransitive, with op) to respect

• beachten
• gootachten
• achtbor

From Old Dutch ahton, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtōn. Equivalent to achte +‎ -en.

achten

1. to consider, to think
2. to pay attention to
3. to expect
4. to discuss
5. to esteem, to value

• achtbāer
• achtinge
• geachten
• misachten
• vōreachten

• Dutch: achten
• Limburgish: achte

• “achten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “achten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Inherited from Old Saxon ahton.

• IPA^(key): /axtən/

achten

1. to proscribe
2. to take care about
3. to respect
4. to mind something
5. to look after

• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

achten

1. to mind, respect, esteem

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxtən/

achten

1. plural of acht