maten
See also: måten
Asturian
Catalan
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmatɛn]
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /ˈmaːtə(n)/
- Rhymes: -aːtən
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
maten
- inflection of matar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /matɛ̃/
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaːtən/
Etymology 1
From Middle French mater (“to checkmate”); equivalent to mat (“checkmate”) + -en (infinitival suffix).
Conjugation
Conjugation 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
- English: mate
References
- “māten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of disputed origin. Equivalent to mat (“tired”) + -en (infinitival suffix).
Verb
maten
Conjugation
Conjugation 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
- English: mate
References
- “māten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Spanish
Verb
maten
- inflection of matar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
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