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Indonesian
Adverb
tumben
- Used to express surprise or to indicate that something is unusual or unexpected.
- Tumben kamu datang tepat waktu! ― Wow, you came on time for a change!
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English tumbian (“to tumble”) (from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”)) and Anglo-Norman toumber (“to fall”) (Old French tumber), itself perhaps from the same Germanic verb via Frankish.
Verb
tumben (third-person singular simple present tumbeth, present participle tumbende, tumbynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tumbed)
- to fall, tumble
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
tumben (third-person singular simple present tumbeth, present participle tumbende, tumbynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tumbed)
- Alternative form of tomben (“to inter”)
Spanish
Verb
tumben
- inflection of tumbar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative