kaput

English

Alternative forms

• kaputt

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈpʊt/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɵt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /kɑ-/, /-ˈput/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /kəˈpʉt/
• Homophone: caput (sometimes)
• Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt

Adjective

kaput (not comparable)

1. (informal) Out of order; not working.

   Synonyms: broken; see also Thesaurus:out of order

   My car went kaput.

   The vending machine is kaput.

   His career is kaput.

   Her marriage went kaput.

   • 1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture):

     German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT.
     Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.

   • 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 July 2022:

     In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.

   • 2026 April 16, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Elaine Godfrey, “Trump Voters Are Over It”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Many Trump voters, in other words, have had it. At this point, it seems safe to declare that the historic coalition that powered the president’s second reelection is finished—kaput.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• kapoof
• kaputness
• kaputski

Translations

out of order — see also out of order

• Afrikaans: kapoet
• Catalan: caput (ca)
• Danish: kaput
• Dutch: kapot (nl)
• Finnish: kaput (fi)
• French: fini (fr) m, capout (fr), en panne (fr), en carafe (fr)
• German: kaputt (de)
• Kyrgyz: өлүм (ky) (ölüm), өлүү (ky) (ölüü), жок болуу (ky) (jok boluu), куруп кетүү (ky) (kurup ketüü)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kaputt

  Nynorsk: kaputt

• Portuguese: enguiçado (pt) m, pifado (pt) m
• Romanian: stricat (ro), distrus (ro)
• Russian: капу́т (ru) (kapút) (colloquial)
• Swedish: kaputt (sv)
• Thai: เจ๊ง (th) (jéng), พัง (th) (pang)
• Turkish: kaput (tr)
• Yiddish: קאַפּוט (kaput)

Danish

Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

Adjective

kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)

1. broken, dysfunctional

References

• “kaput” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑput/, [ˈkɑ̝put̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑput
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧put
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧put

Adjective

kaput (not comparable) (informal)

1. (predicative only) kaput

Declension

Indeclinable

Adverb

kaput (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. kaput

Further reading

• “kaput”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

• kupat, putka

Gurindji

Noun

kaput

1. tomorrow

References

• Gurindji language words from the 50 words project from the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒput]
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

Etymology 1

Interjection

kaput

1. (colloquial) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)

   Synonyms: kampec, konyec, vége

Adjective

kaput (not generally comparable, comparative kaputabb, superlative legkaputabb)

1. (colloquial, predicatively) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)

   Synonyms: bekrepált, bedöglött, betojt, tönkrement, elromlott

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	kaput	kaputok
accusative	kaputot	kaputokat
dative	kaputnak	kaputoknak
instrumental	kaputtal	kaputokkal
causal-final	kaputért	kaputokért
translative	kaputtá	kaputokká
terminative	kaputig	kaputokig
essive-formal	kaputként	kaputokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	kaputban	kaputokban
superessive	kaputon	kaputokon
adessive	kaputnál	kaputoknál
illative	kaputba	kaputokba
sublative	kaputra	kaputokra
allative	kaputhoz	kaputokhoz
elative	kaputból	kaputokból
delative	kaputról	kaputokról
ablative	kaputtól	kaputoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	kaputé	kaputoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	kaputéi	kaputokéi

Etymology 2

kapu (“gate”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

Noun

kaput

1. accusative singular of kapu

   Nyisd ki a kaput! ― Open the gate!

Etymology 3

Noun

kaput (plural kaputok)

1. (archaic) frock coat

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	kaput	kaputok
accusative	kaputot	kaputokat
dative	kaputnak	kaputoknak
instrumental	kaputtal	kaputokkal
causal-final	kaputért	kaputokért
translative	kaputtá	kaputokká
terminative	kaputig	kaputokig
essive-formal	kaputként	kaputokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	kaputban	kaputokban
superessive	kaputon	kaputokon
adessive	kaputnál	kaputoknál
illative	kaputba	kaputokba
sublative	kaputra	kaputokra
allative	kaputhoz	kaputokhoz
elative	kaputból	kaputokból
delative	kaputról	kaputokról
ablative	kaputtól	kaputoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	kaputé	kaputoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	kaputéi	kaputokéi

Possessive forms of kaput

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	kaputom	kaput{{{3}}}m
2nd person sing.	kaputod	kaput{{{3}}}d
3rd person sing.	kaputa	kaput{{{3}}}
1st person plural	kaputunk	kaput{{{3}}}nk
2nd person plural	kaputotok	kaput{{{3}}}tok
3rd person plural	kaputuk	kaput{{{3}}}k

Further reading

• (kaput): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (frock coat): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Kavalan

Noun

kaput

1. friend

Synonyms

• luksan

Further reading

• Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸); Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006), Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)‎^[4], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 117

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt, from French être capot, from Old French capote, from cape, from Late Latin cappa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈput/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Podegrodzie) IPA^(key): [ˈka.put]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: ka‧put

Interjection

kaput

1. kaput!

Further reading

• “kaput”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)
• Karol Mátyás (1891), “kaput”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 323

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈput/, [ka.ˈput]

Noun

kaput

1. companion; mate; partner

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappotto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎpuːt/
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

Noun

kàpūt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)

1. coat

Declension

Declension of kaput

	singular	plural
nominative	kàpūt	kaputi
genitive	kapúta	kaputa
dative	kaputu	kaputima
accusative	kaput	kapute
vocative	kapute	kaputi
locative	kaputu	kaputima
instrumental	kaputom	kaputima

See also

• mantil
• ogrtač
• kabanica

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaput (“to tie or clasp together; to button”).

Verb

kaput (Sundanese script ᮊᮕᮥᮒ᮪, active ngaput, passive dikaput)

1. to sew

Derived terms

• kaputan (“seam; suture”)

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote, ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of şef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.put/

Noun

kaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)

1. hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)

Declension

Declension of kaput

	singular	plural
nominative	kaput	kaputlar
definite accusative	kaputu	kaputları
dative	kaputa	kaputlara
locative	kaputta	kaputlarda
ablative	kaputtan	kaputlardan
genitive	kaputun	kaputların