bedotten

Dutch

Alternative forms

• bedodden (Brabant)

Etymology

A merger of two earlier verbs:

• bedodden (“deceive”), from Middle Dutch dodden, from Proto-West Germanic *dudiʀōn or *dudirōn, frequentative form derived from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move, be moved”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to move, advance, move away, pass away”).
• bedotten (“confuse”), from Middle Dutch dotten, dutten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈdɔtə(n)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: be‧dot‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɔtən

Verb

bedotten

1. (transitive) to mislead, to trick
2. (transitive) to cheat, to scam

Conjugation

Conjugation of bedotten (weak, prefixed)
infinitive	bedotten
past singular	bedotte
past participle	bedot
infinitive	bedotten
gerund	bedotten n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	bedot	bedotte
2nd person sing. (jij)	bedot	bedotte
2nd person sing. (u)	bedot	bedotte
2nd person sing. (gij)	bedot	bedotte
3rd person singular	bedot	bedotte
plural	bedotten	bedotten
subjunctive sing.1	bedotte	bedotte
subjunctive plur.1	bedotten	bedotten
imperative sing.	bedot
imperative plur.1	bedot
participles	bedottend	bedot
1) Archaic.

Synonyms

• afzetten
• foppen
• misleiden

Derived terms

• bedotter
• bedotting

Descendants

• Petjo: bedotten