bedrunken
English
Etymology
Past participle of bedrink
Adjective
bedrunken (comparative more bedrunken, superlative most bedrunken)
- drunken, drunk.
- 1895, William Morris (translator), Beowulf[1]:
- Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken
- 2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak[2]:
- A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.
- 2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah[3]:
- Normally he could whip all and sundry, but in his be-drunken state he had already survived several almost fatal bad beatings.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:drunk
Low German
Etymology
Past participle from bedrinken. Cognate to Dutch bedronken.
Adjective
bedrunken (comparative bedrunkener, superlative bedrunkenst)
Declension
Positive forms of bedrunken
gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is bedrunken | se is bedrunken | dat is bedrunken | se sünd bedrunken | |
partitive | een Bedrunkens | een Bedrunkens | wat Bedrunkens | allens Bedrunken | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken |
oblique | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | bedrunken | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de bedrunken | de bedrunken | dat bedrunken | de bedrunken |
oblique | den bedrunken | de bedrunken | dat bedrunken | de bedrunken | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | (keen) bedrunken |
oblique | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | en bedrunken | (keen) bedrunken |
Comparative forms of bedrunken
gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is bedrunkener | se is bedrunkener | dat is bedrunkener | se sünd bedrunkener | |
partitive | een bedrunkeners | een bedrunkeners | wat bedrunkeners | allens bedrunkener | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bedrunkenere | bedrunkenere | bedrunkener | bedrunkenere |
oblique | bedrunkenere | bedrunkenere | bedrunkener | bedrunkenere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere | dat bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere |
oblique | den bedrunkenern | de bedrunkenere | dat bedrunkenere | de bedrunkenere | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkener | (keen) bedrunkener |
oblique | en bedrunkenern | en bedrunkenere | en bedrunkener | (keen) bedrunkenere |
Superlative forms of bedrunken
gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is de Bedrunkenste | se is de Bedrunkenste | dat is dat Bedrunkenste | se sünd de Bedrunkenstenen | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenst | bedrunkenste |
oblique | bedrunkensten | bedrunkenste | bedrunkenst | bedrunkenste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de bedrunkenste | de bedrunkenste | dat bedrunkenste | de bedrunkensten |
oblique | den bedrunkensten | de bedrunkenste | dat bedrunkenste | de bedrunkensten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenst | (keen) bedrunkensten |
oblique | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenste | en bedrunkenst | (keen) bedrunkensten |