nippen

Dutch

Etymology

An expressive variant of nijpen (to pinch), in the sense of squeezing the lips.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪpən

Verb

nippen

  1. to sip, take a nip

Inflection

Conjugation of nippen (weak)
infinitive nippen
past singular nipte
past participle genipt
infinitive nippen
gerund nippen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular nipnipte
2nd person sing. (jij) niptnipte
2nd person sing. (u) niptnipte
2nd person sing. (gij) niptnipte
3rd person singular niptnipte
plural nippennipten
subjunctive sing.1 nippenipte
subjunctive plur.1 nippennipten
imperative sing. nip
imperative plur.1 nipt
participles nippendgenipt
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

References

  1. van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “nippen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

German

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German and Central German dialects, from Middle Low German nippen, variant of nîpen, from Old Saxon *hnīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnīpan (to pinch).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɪpən/, [ˈnɪpən], [ˈnɪpm̩]
  • (file)

Verb

nippen (weak, third-person singular present nippt, past tense nippte, past participle genippt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to sip; to take a nip
    Er nippte gelangweilt an seinem Longdrink.
    He boredly sipped from his long drink.
    • a. 1827, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Nett und niedlich”, in Epigrammatisch:
      Aber etwas fehlt dir noch; / Küssest mit so spitzen Lippen, / Wie die Tauben Wasser nippen; / Allzu zierlich bist du doch.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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