kosten

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Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

kosten c

  1. definite singular of kost

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔstə(n)/
  • Rhymes: -ɔstən

Verb[edit]

kosten

  1. to cost
  2. take, require (time, effort, etc.)
    Het kostte me wat tijd om het af te maken.
    It took me some time to finish it.

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of kosten (weak)
infinitive kosten
past singular kostte
past participle gekost
infinitive kosten
gerund kosten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular kost kostte
2nd person sing. (jij) kost kostte
2nd person sing. (u) kost kostte
2nd person sing. (gij) kost kostte
3rd person singular kost kostte
plural kosten kostten
subjunctive sing.1 koste kostte
subjunctive plur.1 kosten kostten
imperative sing. kost
imperative plur.1 kost
participles kostend gekost
1) Archaic.

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: kos
  • Negerhollands: kost, kos
  • Sranan Tongo: kostu
    • Caribbean Javanese: kostu

Noun[edit]

kosten

  1. plural of kost

Anagrams[edit]

German[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle High German kosten, from Old French coster, from Latin cōnstō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔstən/
  • Hyphenation: kos‧ten; pre-1996: ko‧sten
  • (file)
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

kosten (weak, third-person singular present kostet, past tense kostete, past participle gekostet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to cost
Usage notes[edit]
  • While elision of the ending -et is now dialectal or poetic in most other verbs, it remains common in colloquial speech with kosten. Thus one might hear /kɔst/ for kostet and, slightly less often, /ɡəkɔst/ for gekostet. These may be spelt kost't, kost, and gekost't, gekost.
Conjugation[edit]
  • 3rd person singular indicative present active can also be: kost't, kost', kost

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old High German kostōn, from Proto-Germanic *kustōną. More at costen.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔstən/
  • Hyphenation: kos‧ten; pre-1996: ko‧sten
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

kosten (weak, third-person singular present kostet, past tense kostete, past participle gekostet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to taste, try (sample the flavor of something)
    Synonyms: probieren, verkosten, versuchen, abschmecken
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoːstən/
  • Hyphenation: kos‧ten; pre-1996: ko‧sten

Verb[edit]

kosten

  1. inflection of kosen:
    1. first/third-person plural preterite
    2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

Further reading[edit]

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

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Noun[edit]

kosten m

  1. definite singular of kost

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

kosten m

  1. definite singular of kost