bitten

Meaning

  1. (class-5,intransitive,strong,transitive) to ask, to beg, to plead, to request
  2. (class-5,strong,transitive) to ask, to invite

Frequency

A2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

bitte

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Hyphenated as
bit‧ten
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɪtn̩/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German bitten, from Old High German bitten, from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan. Compare Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, English bid, Danish bede.

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