böse

See also: bose, Bose, and Böse

German

Alternative forms

  • bös (colloquial or poetic)

Etymology

From Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#BOSECategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#BOSE bœse, bōse, from Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#BOSECategory:German terms derived from Old High German#BOSE bōsi, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BOSECategory:German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BOSE *bausī, from Proto-GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BOSECategory:German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BOSE *bausuz (inflated, puffed up, arrogant, bad), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BOSE *bʰew-, *bew- (to blow, inflate, swell), akin to Yiddish בייז (beyz), Dutch boos, and English boast.

Pronunciation

Adjective

böse (strong nominative masculine singular böser, comparative böser, superlative am bösesten)Category:German lemmas#BOSECategory:German adjectives#BOSECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#BOSECategory:Pages with entries#BÖSECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BÖSE

  1. evil; malicious; wicked
    Synonyms: boshaft, bösartig
    Antonym: gut
    Unsere Taten können schlimme Folgen haben, selbst wenn wir keine bösen Absichten hatten.
    Our actions can have terrible consequences even if we didn’t have any evil intentions.
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    jemandem Böses wollen
    to want to hurt someone
    (literally, “to will evil upon someone”)
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  2. bad; naughty
    Antonym: brav
    Böse Kinder kriegen nichts vom Sankt Nikolaus.
    Naughty children don’t get anything from St. Nicholas.
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  3. mean, dark (of jokes, satire, tricks, etc.)
    Der Witz war böse.
    That joke was dark.
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  4. (chiefly predicative) angry
    Synonyms: sauer, verärgert
    Bist du böse auf mich?Are you angry at me?Category:German terms with usage examples#BOSE

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Adverb

böseCategory:German lemmas#BOSECategory:German adverbs#BOSECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#BOSECategory:Pages with entries#BÖSECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BÖSE

  1. nastily, evilly

Further reading

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