zuigen

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sugen, from Old Dutch sūgan, from Proto-West Germanic *sūgan, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą. The meaning "be bad" is a semantic loan from English suck.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzœy̯.ɣə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: zui‧gen
  • Rhymes: -œy̯ɣən

Verb

zuigen

  1. suck
  2. vacuum, hoover
  3. (intransitive) suckle, nurse
  4. pester
  5. (colloquial) to be bad, to suck

Inflection

Inflection of zuigen (strong class 2b)
infinitive zuigen
past singular zoog
past participle gezogen
infinitive zuigen
gerund zuigen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular zuigzoog
2nd person sing. (jij) zuigtzoog
2nd person sing. (u) zuigtzoog
2nd person sing. (gij) zuigtzoogt
3rd person singular zuigtzoog
plural zuigenzogen
subjunctive sing.1 zuigezoge
subjunctive plur.1 zuigenzogen
imperative sing. zuig
imperative plur.1 zuigt
participles zuigendgezogen
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: suig
  • Negerhollands: sug
  • Sranan Tongo: soygi
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