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单词 wetten
释义

wetten

See also: Wetten

English

Etymology

From wet + -en.

Verb

wetten (third-person singular simple present wettens, present participle wettening, simple past and past participle wettened)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To make wet; to wet
    • 1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73:
      Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɛ.tə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: wet‧ten
  • Rhymes: -ɛtən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wetten, from Old Dutch *wetten, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *hwatjaną.

Verb

wetten

  1. To whet, hone or rub on with something for the purpose of sharpening an object (typically a blade)
  2. (figuratively) To prepare, make preparations.
  3. (poetic) To point as a weapon.
Inflection
Inflection of wetten (weak)
infinitivewetten
past singularwette
past participlegewet
infinitivewetten
gerundwetten n
present tensepast tense
1st person singularwetwette
2nd person sing. (jij)wetwette
2nd person sing. (u)wetwette
2nd person sing. (gij)wetwette
3rd person singularwetwette
pluralwettenwetten
subjunctive sing.1wettewette
subjunctive plur.1wettenwetten
imperative sing.wet
imperative plur.1wet
participleswettendgewet
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
  • wetsteen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wetten

  1. Plural form of wet

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wettōn, from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną. Cognate with Dutch wedden, English wed, Danish vædde, Icelandic veðja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛtən/, [ˈvɛtn̩]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtn̩

Verb

wetten (weak, third-person singular present wettet, past tense wettete, past participle gewettet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to bet
    wetten, dass…(try to) make sure that something is safe
  2. (colloquial) to be nearly certain of
    Ich wette, Lisa wartet schon auf uns.I bet Lisa is waiting for us already.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Wetten
  • Wette

Further reading

  • wetten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • wetten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • wetten” in Duden online
  • wetten” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German wetten, from Old High German wettōn, from Proto-West Germanic *waddjōn, from Proto-Germanic *wadjōną.

Cognate with German wetten, Dutch wedden, English wed, Icelandic veðja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvætən/

Verb

wetten (third-person singular present wett, past participle gewett, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (intransitive) to bet

Conjugation

Regular
infinitivewetten
participlegewett
auxiliaryhunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singularwetten
2nd singularwettswett
3rd singularwett
1st pluralwetten
2nd pluralwettwett
3rd pluralwetten
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.
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