bedrunken
English
Etymology
Past participle of bedrink
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌŋkən
Adjective
bedrunken (comparative more bedrunken, superlative most bedrunken)
- drunken, drunk.
- 1895, William Morris (translator), Beowulf:
- Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken
- 2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak:
- A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.
- 2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah:
- Normally he could whip all and sundry, but in his be-drunken state he had already survived several almost fatal bad beatings.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:drunk
Low German
Etymology
Past participle from bedrinken. Cognate to Dutch bedronken.
Adjective
bedrunken (comparative bedrunkener, superlative bedrunkenst)
- drunk, drunken
Declension
Positive forms of bedrunken
| gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | he is bedrunken | se is bedrunken | dat is bedrunken | se sünd bedrunken | |
| partitive | een Bedrunkens | een Bedrunkens | wat Bedrunkens | allens Bedrunken | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken |
| oblique | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | de bedrunken | de bedrunken | dat bedrunken | de bedrunken |
| oblique | den bedrunken | de bedrunken | dat bedrunken | de bedrunken | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | (keen) bedrunken |
| oblique | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | (keen) bedrunken | |
Comparative forms of bedrunken
| gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | he is bedrunkener | se is bedrunkener | dat is bedrunkener | se sünd bedrunkener | |
| partitive | een bedrunkeners | een bedrunkeners | wat bedrunkeners | allens bedrunkener | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | bedrunkenere | bedrunkenere | bedrunkener | bedrunkenere |
| oblique | bedrunkenere | bedrunkenere | bedrunkener | bedrunkenere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | de bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere | dat bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere |
| oblique | den bedrunkenern | de bedrunkenere | dat bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkener | (keen) bedrunkener |
| oblique | en bedrunkenern | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkener | (keen) bedrunkenere | |
Superlative forms of bedrunken
| gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | he is de Bedrunkenste | se is de Bedrunkenste | dat is dat Bedrunkenste | se sünd de Bedrunkenstenen | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenst | bedrunkenste |
| oblique | bedrunkensten | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenst | bedrunkenste | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | de bedrunkenste | de bedrunkenste | dat bedrunkenste | de bedrunkensten |
| oblique | den bedrunkensten | de bedrunkenste | dat bedrunkenste | de bedrunkensten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenst | (keen) bedrunkensten |
| oblique | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenst | (keen) bedrunkensten | |
Synonyms
- duun
- drunken
- anduunt
- dick
- drietendick
- besapen
- betüdelt
- vull
- benusselt
Plautdietsch
Adjective
bedrunken
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated