betten
See also: Betten
German
Etymology
From Bett (“bed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɛtn̩]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bet‧ten
- Rhymes: -ɛtn̩
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.
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Conjugation
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Middle English
Swedish
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