kaput

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German kaputt (broken, out of order), from French capot (to be without a trick in the card game Piquet). Cognate to Dutch kapot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /kəˈpuːt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt

Adjective

kaput (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Out of order; not working.
    Synonyms: broken; see also Thesaurus:out of order
    My car went kaput.
    His career is kaput.
    Her marriage went kaput.
    • 1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture):
      German propaganda loudspeaker: [] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT.
      Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.
    • 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
      In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From German kaputt (broken, out of order), from French capot (to be without a trick in the card game Piquet).

Adjective

kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)

  1. broken, dysfunctional

References

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt (broken, out of order), from French capot (to be without a trick in the card game Piquet).

Pronunciation

Adjective

kaput (not comparable) (informal)

  1. (predicative only) kaput

Declension

Indeclinable

Adverb

kaput (not comparable) (colloquial)

  1. kaput

Further reading

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

kapu +‎ -t

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ka‧put

Noun

kaput

  1. accusative singular of kapu
    Nyisd ki a kaput!Open the gate!

Kavalan

Noun

kaput

  1. friend

Synonyms

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt, from French être capot, from Old French capote, from cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Pronunciation

Interjection

kaput

  1. kaput!

Further reading

  • kaput in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

Noun

kaput

  1. companion; mate; partner

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappotto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǎpuːt/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧put

Noun

kàpūt m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)

  1. coat

Declension

See also

Sundanese

Verb

kaput

  1. to sew

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote.

Pronunciation

Noun

kaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)

  1. hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative kaput
Definite accusative kaputu
Singular Plural
Nominative kaput kaputlar
Definite accusative kaputu kaputları
Dative kaputa kaputlara
Locative kaputta kaputlarda
Ablative kaputtan kaputlardan
Genitive kaputun kaputların