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bedriven
bedriven
Middle Dutch
Verb
bedriven
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: bedrijven
Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- (originally) IPA(key): /bə'driːvən/
Etymology
Verb
bedrîven
- to drive cattle
- to work a piece of land by using cattle
- to make use of something with cattle
- to practice, to perform a job
- to create, to produce
- to bribe, to seduce
Declension
Conjugation of bedriven as a class 1 strong verb
| Plain Infinitive | bedrîven
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Infinitive (Gerund) | tô bedrîvene or tô bedrîvende | |||
| Verbal Noun | bedrîven or bedrîvent | |||
| Participles | Imperatives | |||
| Present | bedrîvende | 2nd Person Singular | bedrîf | |
| Past | bedrēven | 2nd Person Plural | bedrîvet | |
| Indicative | Subjunctive | |||
| Present | Preterite | Present | Preterite | |
| 1st Person Singular | bedrîve | bedrêf | bedrîve | bedrēve |
| 2nd Person Singular | bedrîvest or bedrîfst | bedrēvest | bedrîvest | bedrēvest |
| 3rd Person Singular | bedrîvet or bedrîft | bedrêf | bedrîvet | bedrēve |
| Plural | bedrîven (bedrîvetnote) | bedrēven | bedrîven | bedrēven |
Derived terms
- bedrîf
Swedish
Etymology
past participle of bedriva.
Adjective
bedriven
Declension
| Inflection of bedriven | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | bedriven | — | — |
| Neuter singular | bedrivet | — | — |
| Plural | bedrivna | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | bedrivne | — | — |
| All | bedrivna | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. | |||