Participles
| Present | bētende |
| Past | (ġe)bēted |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | bēte |
| 2nd sing. | bētest; bētst |
| 3rd sing. | bēteþ; bētt; bēt |
| 1st plur. | bētaþ |
| 2nd plur. | bētaþ |
| 3rd plur. | bētaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | bētte |
| 2nd sing. | bēttest |
| 3rd sing. | bētte |
| 1st plur. | bētton |
| 2nd plur. | bētton |
| 3rd plur. | bētton |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | bēte |
| 2nd sing. | bēte |
| 3rd sing. | bēte |
| 1st plur. | bēten |
| 2nd plur. | bēten |
| 3rd plur. | bēten |
Past
| 1st sing. | bētte |
| 2nd sing. | bētte |
| 3rd sing. | bētte |
| 1st plur. | bētten |
| 2nd plur. | bētten |
| 3rd plur. | bētten |
Verbs conjugated like 'betan'
betan,
Verbs similar to 'betan'
bætan,
beatan,
began,
beran,
bitan,
etan,
metan,
aberan,
abitan,
ametan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *bōtijaną, derived from *bōtō. See: Proto-Germanic '
*bōtijaną'.
Sample Sentences
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c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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Þā þing þe hē unfulfremed ġemētte, mid heora fultume hē þā rihte and bētte. (Anything that was imperfect when he found it, he set right and improved with their help.)
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11th century, "Æcerbot Charm"
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Hēr is sēo bōt, hū þū meaht þīne æcras bētan ġif hīe nyllaþ wel weaxan oþþe þǣr hwelċ unġedēfe þing on ġedōn biþ on drȳ oþþe on lyblāce. (Here is the remedy for how you can improve your fields if they won’t grow well or something harmful has been done to them by a wizard or through witchcraft.)
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early 11th century, Wulfstan, "Larspell"
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Uton lufian ūre ċirican, for þon hēo biþ ūre friðiġend and werġend on Dōmes Dæġe. And wyrċen wē simle bryċġe and þā bētan. (Let’s love our church, because it will be our defender and protector at the Last Judgment. And let’s always build bridges and repair them.)
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c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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On þisse ċirican ǣrest þā hālgan lārēowas ongunnon samnian and singan and ġebiddan and mæssesang dōn and menn lǣran and fulwian, oþ þæt sē cyning tō ġelēafan ġeċierred wæs and māran lēafnesse onfēngon ofer eall tō lǣrenne and ċirican tō timbriġenne and tō bētenne. (This is the church where the holy teachers first began to gather and sing and pray and hold mass and teach and baptize people, before the king was converted to Christianity and they received more permission to teach everywhere and to build and repair churches.)
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c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
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Corrigō: Iċ bēte sume lēase bōc oþþe iċ styriġe sumum stuntum menn. (Corrigo: I amend a faulty book or I exhort a foolish person.)
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c. 899, Alfred the Great, Psalm 36:9 (Those who do evil and do not atone for it will be uprooted from the earth.)
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c. 900, Werferth, translation of the Dialogues of Gregory
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Sume nihte, þā þā hē wel ǣr ārās tō bētenne þā lēoht þe wǣron nēah þǣre dura, and þā stōd hē on triewenre hlǣdre under þām lēohtfæte and ontende and ġebētte þæt lēoht, þā stōd þǣr ofdūne on þǣre flōre sanctus Petrus sē ēadega apostol on hwītum hræġlum, and þus cwæþ tō him, "Þū ġefēra, for hwon ārise þū swā hraðe?" (One night, when he had gotten up very early to kindle the lights near the door, and he was standing on a wooden ladder under the lamp to light the fire, down there on the floor stood Saint Peter the apostle dressed in white, and he said to him, "Comrade, why did you get up so early?")
Cognates
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