botten

See also: bøtten and Botten

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔtə(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bot‧ten
  • Rhymes: -ɔtən

Etymology 1

Unknown, perhaps a variant of boten.

Alternative forms

Verb

botten (archaic outside Belgium)

  1. (intransitive) to bump, to collide
  2. (transitive) to push
  3. (transitive) to strike
Conjugation
Conjugation of botten (weak)
infinitive botten
past singular botte
past participle gebot
infinitive botten
gerund botten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular bot botte
2nd person sing. (jij) bot botte
2nd person sing. (u) bot botte
2nd person sing. (gij) bot botte
3rd person singular bot botte
plural botten botten
subjunctive sing.1 botte botte
subjunctive plur.1 botten botten
imperative sing. bot
imperative plur.1 bot
participles bottend gebot
1) Archaic.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

botten

  1. plural of bot

Anagrams

Luxembourgish

Verb

botten (third-person singular present bott, past participle gebott, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to eat

Middle English

Noun

botten

  1. plural of bat

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish butn, botn, from Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

botten c

  1. bottom (lowest part; lowest part of a container; bed of a body of water)
  2. (colloquial) something very bad
    Det kändes botten
    It felt very bad
Declension
Declension of botten
nominative genitive
singular indefinite botten bottens
definite bottnen bottnens
plural indefinite bottnar bottnars
definite bottnarna bottnarnas
Derived terms

Further reading

  • Annika Karlholm (1 May 2019) “Allra överst låg botten [At the very top was the bottom]”, in isof.se[1] (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, archived from the original on 27 October 2020

Etymology 2

Noun

botten

  1. definite singular of bot

References

West Frisian

Noun

botten

  1. plural of bot