Adjective: böse
Hyphenation:
Strong Declension
(without article)
Nominative
| masculine | böser |
| feminine | böse |
| neuter | böses |
| plural | böse |
Genitive
| masculine | bösen |
| feminine | böser |
| neuter | bösen |
| plural | böser |
Dative
| masculine | bösem |
| feminine | böser |
| neuter | bösem |
| plural | bösen |
Accusative
| masculine | bösen |
| feminine | böse |
| neuter | böses |
| plural | böse |
Weak Declension
(with definite article)
Nominative
| masculine | der böse |
| feminine | die böse |
| neuter | das böse |
| plural | die bösen |
Genitive
| masculine | des bösen |
| feminine | der bösen |
| neuter | des bösen |
| plural | der bösen |
Dative
| masculine | dem bösen |
| feminine | der bösen |
| neuter | dem bösen |
| plural | den bösen |
Accusative
| masculine | den bösen |
| feminine | die böse |
| neuter | das böse |
| plural | die bösen |
Mixed Declension
(with indefinite article)
Nominative
| masculine | ein böser |
| feminine | eine böse |
| neuter | ein böses |
| plural | bösen |
Genitive
| masculine | eines bösen |
| feminine | einer bösen |
| neuter | eines bösen |
| plural | bösen |
Dative
| masculine | einem bösen |
| feminine | einer bösen |
| neuter | einem bösen |
| plural | bösen |
Accusative
| masculine | einen bösen |
| feminine | eine böse |
| neuter | ein böses |
| plural | bösen |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | böse |
| Comparative | böser |
| Superlative | am bösesten |
Sample Sentences
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Unsere Taten können schlimme Folgen haben, selbst wenn wir keine bösen Absichten hatten. (Our actions can have terrible consequences even if we didn’t have any evil intentions.)
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jemandem Böses wollen (to want to hurt someone)
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Böse Kinder kriegen nichts vom Sankt Nikolaus. (Naughty children don’t get anything from St. Nicholas.)
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Der Witz war böse. (That joke was dark.)
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Bist du böse auf mich? (Are you angry at me?)
Adjectives inflected like böse
sachte,
solide,
behände,
behende,
perfide,
schnöde,
europamüde,
gelinde,
unweise,
kriegsmüde,
lebensmüde,
amtsmüde,
bitterböse,
dufte,
leise,
töfte,
krude,
prüde,
weise,
öde, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle High German bœse, bōse, from Old High German bōsi, from Proto-West Germanic *bausī, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, puffed up, arrogant, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bew- (“to blow, inflate, swell”), akin to Yiddish בייז (beyz), Dutch boos, and English boast. See: Dutch Adjectives '
boos'.
Verbs referencing "böse"
Catalan Adjectives
bar.
Translations