From Middle Dutch bicant. Contrary to the standard form bijkans, this form lacks the adverbial -s.
bekant
Borrowed from German bekannt (“known, acquainted”), from Middle High German bekant, past participle of bekennen (“to know; to make known”). The verb also developed the sense “to confess” in German, which was separately loaned into Swedish as bekänna. Here the Swedish past participle is bekänd (“confessed”).
bekant
| Inflection of bekant | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | bekant | mer bekant | mest bekant |
| Neuter singular | bekant | mer bekant | mest bekant |
| Plural | bekanta | mer bekanta | mest bekanta |
| Masculine plural3 | bekante | mer bekanta | mest bekanta |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | bekante | mer bekante | mest bekante |
| All | bekanta | mer bekanta | mest bekanta |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
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