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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.tər/
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  • Hyphenation: et‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛtər

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch etter, from Old Dutch *ēttar, from Proto-West Germanic *aitr.

Noun

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etter m or n (uncountable)

  1. pus
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Descendants
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  • Papiamentu: èter, etter
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French être (creature), with folk-etymological influence from etter (etymology 1).

Noun

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etter m (plural etters, diminutive ettertje n)

  1. a nasty person, a prat
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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etter

  1. inflection of etteren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Partially from Norwegian Nynorsk etter, from Middle Norwegian ettir, from Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Germanic *aftiri, *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (further behind, further away), comparative form of *apo- (off, behind).

Preposition

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etter

  1. after

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • ette, itte (attæ, ette, etter, etti, ettæ, ettår, ittòr, itte, ætte, ætter, ætti)

Etymology

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From Middle Norwegian ettir, from Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Germanic *aftiri, *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (further behind, further away), comparative form of *apo- (off, behind). Akin to English after.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²ɛtːɛr/, /ɛtːə/

Preposition

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etter

  1. (temporal) after
    Eg kjem på besøk etter middag.
    I will come visit after dinner.
  2. behind
    Han dreg ei vogn etter seg.
    He's pulling a cart behind him.
  3. along

Usage notes

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  • Governs the dative in dialects which still use the dative case, except in a temporal. The use of dative is now long considered nonstandard except in a couple of fixed expressions. The conjunction etter di is an example of that.
  • An apocopic form may be used preceding certain personal pronouns in many dialects.

Derived terms

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Adverb

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etter

  1. after
  2. left
  3. again
  4. later, afterwards
  5. used with a verb, indicating a movement towards or to something
    Synonym: hen
    kor skal du etter?
    where are you going?

References

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  • “etter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “etter”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), volume 2, Oslo: Samlaget, 1978, pages 814-824
  • “etter” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oyd-, *h₂eyd-.

Noun

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etter n

  1. venom, poison (from an animal or plant)
  2. atter

Declension

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Declension of etter
nominative genitive
singular indefinite etter etters
definite ettret ettrets
plural indefinite
definite

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Adverb

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etter (not comparable)

  1. Only used in etter värre

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