botten

See also: bøtten and Botten

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔtə(n)/
  • 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
Inflection
Inflection of botten (weak)
infinitive botten
past singular botte
past participle gebot
infinitive botten
gerund botten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular botbotte
2nd person sing. (jij) botbotte
2nd person sing. (u) botbotte
2nd person sing. (gij) botbotte
3rd person singular botbotte
plural bottenbotten
subjunctive sing.1 bottebotte
subjunctive plur.1 bottenbotten
imperative sing. bot
imperative plur.1 bot
participles bottendgebot
1) Archaic.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

botten

  1. Plural form of bot

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

botten

  1. plural of bat

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation
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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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative botten bottnen bottnar bottnarna
Genitive bottens bottnens bottnars bottnarnas
Derived terms

Further reading
  • Annika Karlholm (1 May 2019), “Allra överst låg botten [At the very top was the bottom]”, in isof.se‎ (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, archived from the original on 2020-10-27

Noun

botten

  1. definite singular of bot.

Further reading

West Frisian

Noun

botten

  1. plural of bot
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