senke

German edit

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

senke

inflection of senken:

Kari'na edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

(Venezuela) IPA^(key): [seŋke]
(Suriname) IPA^(key): [seŋɡe]

Adverb edit

senke

being near

References edit

Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 366
Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “senge”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 431; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 421

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Danish sænke, from Old Danish sænckæ, from Old Norse *sænkja (east) / søkkva (west), from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną, cognate with German senken. Causative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”) (cf. Danish synke (“to sink”)).

Verb edit

senke (imperative senk, present tense senker, passive senkes, simple past and past participle senka or senket, present participle senkende)

to lower
to reduce
to sink (a ship; compare with synke)

Derived terms edit

References edit

“senke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Noun edit

senke