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adj. Predestined, fated.
n. A predestined soul mate.
"His meeting her so randomly was bashert."
"Is it possible that this guy was my bashert and I totally messed it up?" (source)
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באַשערט bashert
beshert
In Yiddish, bashert is an adjective that takes on endings according to the gender of the referent, e.g. מײַן באַשערטער mayn basherter 'my fated one (male)', מײַן באַשערטע mayn basherte 'my fated one (female)', and according to its function within a sentence (its case). Bashert without an ending is the form that has entered Jewish-English.
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