Adjective: bot
Indefinite Forms
| masc. & fem. | botte |
| neuter | bot |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | botte |
| Comparative | bottere |
| Superlative | botste |
Sample Sentences
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De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen. (The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.)
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Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens. (His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.)
Adjectives inflected like bot
nauwgezet,
sneeuwwit,
moddervet,
afgeplat,
gevat,
gezet,
bigot,
onnut,
koket,
kapot,
fit,
mat,
bot,
hot,
nat,
net,
nut,
kut,
pet,
vet, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).
Verbs referencing "bot"
Galician Adjectives
boto.
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