Participles
| Present | etende |
| Past | (ġe)eten |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | ete |
| 2nd sing. | itst |
| 3rd sing. | itt; it |
| 1st plur. | etaþ |
| 2nd plur. | etaþ |
| 3rd plur. | etaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | ǣt |
| 2nd sing. | ǣte |
| 3rd sing. | ǣt |
| 1st plur. | ǣton |
| 2nd plur. | ǣton |
| 3rd plur. | ǣton |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | ete |
| 2nd sing. | ete |
| 3rd sing. | ete |
| 1st plur. | eten |
| 2nd plur. | eten |
| 3rd plur. | eten |
Past
| 1st sing. | ǣte |
| 2nd sing. | ǣte |
| 3rd sing. | ǣte |
| 1st plur. | ǣten |
| 2nd plur. | ǣten |
| 3rd plur. | ǣten |
Verbs conjugated like 'etan'
etan,
Verbs similar to 'etan'
betan,
ehtan,
ettan,
metan,
ytan,
acan,
ælan,
æwan,
agan,
alan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. See: Proto-Germanic '
*etaną'.
Verbs referencing "etan"
English
eat, Latin
edo, Middle English
eten, Scots
ait, Old High German ezzan, Sanskrit
अत्ति.
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo. (I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.)
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late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
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Wearð þæt unġemetlīċe myċle ġefeoht betwuh Crētense, ⁊ Atheniense, þǣm folcum. ⁊ þā Crētense hæfdon ðone grimlēċan siġe, ⁊ ealle þā æþelestan bearn þāra Athēniensa hȳ ġenomon, ⁊ sealdon þǣm Mīnōtaurō tō etanne, þæt wæs healf mon healf lēo. (There was an immensely great war between the Cretans and the Athenians. And the Cretans won a grim victory, and they took all the most noble of the Athenian children and gave them to the Minotaur, who was half man and half lion, for him to eat.)
Cognates
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