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German
Etymology
From Bett (“bed”).
Pronunciation
Verb
betten (weak, third-person singular present bettet, past tense bettete, past participle gebettet, auxiliary haben)
- to bed (place in a bed)
1930, “act 2, scene 5”, in Bertolt Brecht (lyrics), Kurt Weil (music), Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny:Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man, / es deckt einen da keiner da zu / und wenn einer tritt, dann bin ich es / und wird einer getreten, dann bist du‘s.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
betten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
betten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “betten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “betten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “betten” in Duden online
- “betten” in OpenThesaurus.de
Middle English
Verb
betten
- Alternative form of beten (“to fix”)
Swedish
Noun
betten
- definite plural of bett