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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

bekomme.

to agree with, suit, or please someone; to have a certain effect on someone's health, condition, or well-being

7 characters3 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

verb/bəˈkɔmːə/
  1. to agree with, suit, or please someone; to have a certain effect on someone's health, condition, or well-being

    intransitive · literary
    Den turen har visst bekommet deg vel.
  2. to get, obtain, receive

    archaic · humorous · obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Middle Low German bekomen (“to come to something; to get; to come into a certain state”), from Old Saxon bikuman (“to come to, arrive at”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bikwemaną (“to come to, arrive”). By surface analysis, be- (“prefix”) + komme (“to come”). The original sense was “to come to something”, later developing into “to get, receive” and “to come into a certain state”; the Norwegian sense “to agree with, suit, have an effect on” is especially preserved in phrases such as vel bekomme (“may it do you good; you are welcome”). Compare Danish bekomme, Swedish bekomma, German bekommen, Dutch bekomen and English become.

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