drängen

See also: drangen and Drängen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German drengen, from Proto-West Germanic *þrangwijan. Akin to the verb dringen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁɛŋən/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: drän‧gen

Verb

drängen (weak, third-person singular present drängt, past tense drängte, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to press, to push
    • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 35:
      Immer mehr Leute drängten in den kleinen Raum und zwängten sich zwischen Tischen und Stühlen durch.
      More and more people pushed into the small room and squeezed themselves through between the tables and chairs.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • drängen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • drängen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • drängen” in Duden online
  • drängen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German drengen, from Proto-Germanic *þrangwijaną. Cognate with German drängen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʀæŋen/, [ˈdʀæŋən]

Verb

drängen (third-person singular present drängt, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to push

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive drängen
participle gedrängt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular drängen
2nd singular drängs dräng
3rd singular drängt
1st plural drängen
2nd plural drängt drängt
3rd plural drängen
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Swedish

Noun

drängen

  1. definite singular of dräng

Anagrams

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