drukken

Danish

Etymology

Originally a past participle of drikke (“to drink”). Compare, in the same sense, English drunken, drunk, German trunken, Dutch dronken.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /drokən/, [ˈd̥ʁɔɡ̊ŋ̩]

Adjective

drukken (neuter drukkent, plural and definite singular attributive drukne)

  1. drunk
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fuld

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʏkə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: druk‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ʏkən

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drucken, from Old Dutch *thrucken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną.

Verb

drukken

  1. (intransitive) to press
  2. (transitive, printing) to print
  3. (reflexive, hunting, of a hunted animal) to hide (by pressing its body close to the ground)
  4. (reflexive, colloquial) to shirk
Inflection
Inflection of drukken (weak)
infinitive drukken
past singular drukte
past participle gedrukt
infinitive drukken
gerund drukken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular drukdrukte
2nd person sing. (jij) druktdrukte
2nd person sing. (u) druktdrukte
2nd person sing. (gij) druktdrukte
3rd person singular druktdrukte
plural drukkendrukten
subjunctive sing.1 drukkedrukte
subjunctive plur.1 drukkendrukten
imperative sing. druk
imperative plur.1 drukt
participles drukkendgedrukt
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: druk
  • → Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig
  • → Papiamentu: drùk, druk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

drukken

  1. plural of druk

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