bees
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbiːz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Noun
bees
- plural of bee
See also
- Appendix:Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch beest, from Middle Dutch beeste, from Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪəs/
Audio: (file)
Noun
bees (plural beeste)
Derived terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːs/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: bees
- Rhymes: -eːs
Etymology 1
Noun
bees f (plural bezen, diminutive bezeke n)
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch bese (“berry”). Variant of bes.
Noun
bees f (plural bezen, diminutive bezeke n)
References
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeːs/, [ˈbe̞ːs̠]
- Rhymes: -eːs
- Syllabification(key): bees
- Hyphenation(key): bees
Noun
bees
- alternative form of beesi
Declension
| Inflection of bees (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | bees | beesit | |
| genitive | beesin | beesien | |
| partitive | beesiä | beesejä | |
| illative | beesiin | beeseihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | bees | beesit | |
| accusative | nom. | bees | beesit |
| gen. | beesin | ||
| genitive | beesin | beesien | |
| partitive | beesiä | beesejä | |
| inessive | beesissä | beeseissä | |
| elative | beesistä | beeseistä | |
| illative | beesiin | beeseihin | |
| adessive | beesillä | beeseillä | |
| ablative | beesiltä | beeseiltä | |
| allative | beesille | beeseille | |
| essive | beesinä | beeseinä | |
| translative | beesiksi | beeseiksi | |
| abessive | beesittä | beeseittä | |
| instructive | — | beesein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
| Possessive forms of bees (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derived terms
- bees-värinen (adjective)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbe.eːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛː.es]
Verb
beēs
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of beō
Middle English
Noun
bees
- alternative form of bes (“bees”)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːs/
Adjective
bees
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From Middle Low German bōse, from Old Saxon bōsi, from Proto-West Germanic *bausī.
Adjective
bees (comparative beesa, superlative beesesta)
Derived terms
- Beesa
- beesren
Related terms
Categories:
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːz
- Rhymes:English/iːz/1 syllable
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- English calculator words
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Old French
- Afrikaans terms derived from Latin
- Afrikaans terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afrikaans terms with audio pronunciation
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans nouns
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːs
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch countable nouns
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Brabantian Dutch
- Dutch terms with usage examples
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eːs
- Rhymes:Finnish/eːs/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Middle English variant non-lemma forms
- Pennsylvania German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Pennsylvania German lemmas
- Pennsylvania German adjectives
- Plautdietsch terms inherited from Middle Low German
- Plautdietsch terms derived from Middle Low German
- Plautdietsch terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Plautdietsch terms derived from Old Saxon
- Plautdietsch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Plautdietsch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Plautdietsch lemmas
- Plautdietsch adjectives
- Plautdietsch 1-syllable words