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bieden

bieden

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German *bedōn, northern variant of betōn. Cognate with German beten (to pray). All Central Franconian dialects have lost the verb at hand in German bitten and replaced it with the former (compare Ripuarian bedde).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiə̯dən/
  • Rhymes: -iədən

Verb

bieden (third-person singular present biet, past participle gebiet, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to ask, to beg, to plead
  2. (intransitive) to pray

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive bieden
participle gebiet
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular bieden
2nd singular biets biet
3rd singular biet
1st plural bieden
2nd plural biet biet
3rd plural bieden
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Derived terms


Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *biodan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (be awake, aware).

Verb

bieden

  1. to offer, to present
  2. to promise
  3. to point, to direct (towards someone)
  4. to notify

Inflection

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Derived terms

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