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ebben

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛbə(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: eb‧ben
  • Rhymes: -ɛbən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ebben, from Old Dutch *ebbon, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn.

Verb

ebben

  1. (intransitive) to ebb, to recede (especially of tides)
Conjugation
More information Conjugation of (weak), infinitive ...
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From older eben, from Middle Dutch ebeen, from Latin hebenus.

Noun

ebben n (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. ebony (wood)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin ebenus, probably borrowed through Old French.

Adjective

ebben (not comparable)

  1. ebony (made of ebony wood)
    Synonym: ebbenhouten
Declension
More information Declension of, uninflected ...
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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German ebben; see Ebbe.

Pronunciation

Verb

ebben (weak, third-person singular present ebbt, past tense ebbte, past participle geebbt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to ebb

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ebben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • ebben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • ebben” in Duden online
  • ebben” in OpenThesaurus.de
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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛbːɛn]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: eb‧ben

Etymology 1

ez + -ben

Pronoun

ebben

  1. inessive singular of ez, in this

Etymology 2

eb + -ben

Noun

ebben

  1. inessive singular of eb

See also

More information case, suffix ...

1Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise.
Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns / edit this template

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ebben. Cognate with English ebb, Dutch ebben, German ebben.

Verb

ebben (past singular ebb, past participle ebbt, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to ebb

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present ...

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn; equivalent to ebbe + -en (infinitival suffix).

Pronunciation

Verb

ebben

  1. To ebb; to recede (of tides)
  2. (figuratively) To decrease or decline.

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present tense ...

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: ebb
  • Scots: ebb

References

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Swedish

Noun

ebben

  1. definite singular of ebb

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