bied
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bit]
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Verb
bied (present bied, present participle biedende, past participle gebied)
- to offer
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bied
- inflection of bieden:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| b-j-d |
| 17 terms |
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic بَاضَ (bāḍa). The phonetically expected form is archaic bad, but the vowel was altered by analogy (as in many other hollow roots).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪːt/
- Rhymes: -ɪːt
Verb
bied (imperfect jbid, past participle mibjud, verbal noun bidien)
- to lay (eggs)
- It-tiġieġa biedet tliet bajdiet. ― The chicken laid three eggs.
Conjugation
| positive forms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | bidt | bidt | bied | bidna | bidtu | biedu | |
| f | biedet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nbid | tbid | jbid | nbidu | tbidu | jbidu | |
| f | tbid | |||||||
| imperative | bid | bidu | ||||||
Volapük
Noun
bied (nominative plural bieds)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bied | bieds |
| genitive | bieda | biedas |
| dative | biede | biedes |
| accusative | biedi | biedis |
| vocative 1 | o bied! | o bieds! |
| predicative 2 | biedu | biedus |
1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only