vasten

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English

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Etymology

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From vast +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

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vasten (third-person singular simple present vastens, present participle vastening, simple past and past participle vastened)

  1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become vast
    • 1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425:
      And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑstən

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch vasten, from Old Dutch *faston, from Proto-West Germanic *fastēn, from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Verb

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vasten

  1. to fast
Conjugation
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Conjugation of vasten (weak)
infinitive vasten
past singular vastte
past participle gevast
infinitive vasten
gerund vasten n
present tense past tense
1st person singular vast vastte
2nd person sing. (jij) vast vastte
2nd person sing. (u) vast vastte
2nd person sing. (gij) vast vastte
3rd person singular vast vastte
plural vasten vastten
subjunctive sing.1 vaste vastte
subjunctive plur.1 vasten vastten
imperative sing. vast
imperative plur.1 vast
participles vastend gevast
1) Archaic.
Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: vas
  • Negerhollands: vasten, vast

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch vastene f, from Old Dutch *fastunna, from Proto-Germanic *fastubniją, *fastubnijō, from *fastāną (to fast). Cognate with Old Saxon fastunnia, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌽𐌹 (fastubni).

Noun

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vasten m or n (uncountable)

  1. fast (period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food)

Anagrams

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Singular instructive of vasta-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑsten/, [ˈʋɑ̝s̠te̞n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑsten
  • Syllabification(key): vas‧ten

Postposition

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vasten [with partitive]

  1. against (in physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by)
    Lapio nojasi seinää vasten.
    The shovel was leaning against the wall.
  2. against (in physical opposition to; in collision with)
    Vene törmäsi kalliota vasten.
    The boat crashed against the rocks.
  3. against (of a position, against a background)
    Katso sitä valoa vasten, niin näet, mitä tarkoitan.
    Look at it against the light, and you will see what I mean.
  4. preceding, before (immediately before)
    Se tapahtui torstaita vasten yöllä.
    It happened in the night preceding Thursday.
  5. towards, against (to a direction)
    Synonym: vastaan
    Kapteeni ohjasi keulan tuulta vasten.
    The captain steered the bow towards the wind.
  6. against (intentionally overruling)
    Synonym: vastoin
    Hän toimi selkeää kieltoa vasten.
    He acted against a clear prohibition.
  7. (dialectal) Synonym of varten (for (a purpose))
    Mitä vasten?
    What for?
  8. (dialectal) Synonym of vastaan (against (in opposition to, opposing))
    Taistelimme intiaaneja vasten kolme päivää ja yötä.
    We fought against the Indians for three days and nights.
  9. (colloquial, dialectal) Synonym of vastaan (against (in opposition of))
    En ole vasten.
    I'm not against.

Usage notes

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Can also be used as a preposition without any change in meaning, but use as a postposition is significantly more common.

Inflection

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *faston, from Proto-West Germanic *fastēn.

Verb

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vasten

  1. to fast

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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