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See also:Motenandmöten

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moten

  1. plural ofmoot

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromOld Englishmōtan, fromProto-West Germanic*mōtan, fromProto-Germanic*mōtaną.

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Verb

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moten(auxiliary)

  1. Tohave orneed to;must.
    • c.1390,Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, inCanterbury Tales, lines875–877, 885:
      And ceꝛtes, if itneꝛe too long to heeꝛe, / I wold have told you fully the manneꝛe / How wonnen was the regne of Femenye / By Theſeus and by his chivalrye,[] / But all that thing Imot as now foꝛbeꝛe.
      And certainly, if it weren't too long to hear / I would have told you the manner / How the realm of Femeny was won / By Theseus and by his chivalry,[] / But Imust leave all that alone for now.
  2. To feel strongly obliged to;should (really).
  3. To be able to;might,can.
  4. To be permitted to;may,can.
  5. To beabout to orgoing to;will,shall.
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As in Modern English, what are historically the past forms of this verb are frequently used with present or even future semantics; see the conjugation table.

Conjugation
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Conjugation ofmoten (preterite-present,defective)
infinitive
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularmot,mostemoste
2nd-personsingularmostmostest
3rd-personsingularmot,mostemoste
subjunctivesingularmote,moste
imperativesingular
plural1moten,mote,mosten,mostemosten,moste
imperativeplural
participles

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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Etymology 2

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FromOld Englishmōtian(to speak, converse, discuss), fromProto-West Germanic*mōtijan(to meet, encounter), fromProto-Germanic*mōtijaną, adenominative of*mōtą(meeting).

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moten

  1. tospeak,talk,say
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofmoten (weak in -ed)
infinitive(to)moten,mote
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularmotemoted
2nd-personsingularmotestmotedest
3rd-personsingularmotethmoted
subjunctivesingularmote
imperativesingular
plural1moten,motemoteden,motede
imperativepluralmoteth,mote
participlesmotynge,motendemoted,ymoted

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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Etymology 3

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Noun

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moten

  1. alternative form ofmotoun

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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moten m

  1. definitesingular ofmote

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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moten m

  1. definitesingular ofmote

Old English

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mōten

  1. pluralpresentsubjunctive ofmōtan

Swedish

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Noun

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moten

  1. definiteplural ofmot
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