maten
See also: måten
Asturian
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Catalan
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Czech
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Dutch
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editNoun
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Verb
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- inflection of meten:
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editGalician
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- inflection of matar:
Haitian Creole
editEtymology
editFrom French matin (“morning”).
Pronunciation
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Middle English
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editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle French mater (“to checkmate”); equivalent to mat (“checkmate”) + -en (infinitival suffix).
Alternative forms
editVerb
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- To checkmate (capture the king in chess)
Conjugation
editConjugation of maten (weak in -ed)
infinitive | (to) maten, mate | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | mate | mated | |
2nd-person singular | matest | matedest | |
3rd-person singular | mateth | mated | |
subjunctive singular | mate | ||
imperative singular | — | ||
plural1 | maten, mate | mateden, matede | |
imperative plural | mateth, mate | — | |
participles | matynge, matende | mated, mat, ymated, ymat |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
edit- English: mate
References
edit- “māten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editFrom Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of disputed origin. Equivalent to mat (“tired”) + -en (infinitival suffix).
Alternative forms
editVerb
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Conjugation
editConjugation of maten (weak in -ed)
infinitive | (to) maten, mate | ||
---|---|---|---|
present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | mate | mated | |
2nd-person singular | matest | matedest | |
3rd-person singular | mateth | mated | |
subjunctive singular | mate | ||
imperative singular | — | ||
plural1 | maten, mate | mateden, matede | |
imperative plural | mateth, mate | — | |
participles | matynge, matende | mated, mat, ymated, ymat |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
edit- English: mate
References
edit- “māten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
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Spanish
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- inflection of matar:
Swedish
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