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tanke

See also: tenke, tänka, tǎnkè, and tænke

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tankə/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ə]

Etymology 1

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From Old Danish tanckæ, borrowed from Middle Low German danke (with the initial consonant of the related verb Danish tænke (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Swedish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.

Noun

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tanke c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanker)

  1. thought
  2. idea
  3. intention
Inflection
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Declension of tanke
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tanke tanken tanker tankerne
genitive tankes tankens tankers tankernes

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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tanke c

  1. indefinite plural of tank

Verb

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tanke (imperative tank, infinitive at tanke, present tense tanker, past tense tankede, perfect tense har tanket)

  1. tank up, fill up
  2. refuel

Dutch

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Verb

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tanke

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of tanken

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Hunsrik

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old High German dankōn, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tanke

  1. to thank
    • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:
      awer, ap xeele, tanke, knaps – mas, descascar, agradecer, rarefeito.
      but, to peel, to thank, scarce – but, to peel, to thank, scarce
      (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

Conjugation

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Regular
infinitive tanke
participle getankd
auxiliary hon
present
indicative 		imperative
ich tanke —
du tankst tank
er/sie/es tankd —
meer tanke —
deer tankd tankd
sie tanke —
The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

Noun

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tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

  1. thought
  2. intent
  3. idea
  4. an imaginary small unit of something; a tad
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From the noun tank.

Verb

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tanke (present tense tanker, past tense tanka or tanket, past participle tanka or tanket)

  1. to tank, tank up, fill up, (put fuel into a tank)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²tɑnçə/, /²tɑŋkə/

Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

Noun

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tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

  1. thought
  2. intent
  3. idea
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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tanke (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanke/tank)

  1. Alternative form of tanka

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Portuguese

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Verb

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tanke

  1. inflection of tankar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

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Adjective

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tanke

  1. inflection of tanak:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Sidamo

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Tanke.

Etymology

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Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtanke/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧ke

Noun

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tanke f 

  1. tank (armoured vehicle)

Declension

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Declension of tanke (feminine)
unmodified modified
predicative tanke
nominative tanke tanke
genitive tankete*) tanke*)
dative tankete tankera
accusative tanke*)
ablative tanketenni tankenni
*) Stressed on the final vowel.

References

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  • Ruth Kramer, Anbessa Teferra (2020) “Gender switch in Sidaama”, in Brill's journal of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics, volume 12, page 305

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish þanke, borrowed from Middle Low German danke, with the initial consonant of the related verb Swedish tänka (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Danish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²taŋːkɛ/, [²t̪ʰäŋːkɛ̠]
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Noun

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tanke c

  1. thought

Declension

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Declension of tanke 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tanke tanken tankar tankarna
Genitive tankes tankens tankars tankarnas

Derived terms

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Further reading

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West Frisian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from a form of Proto-Germanic *þankaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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tanke

  1. thanks, thank you
    Synonym: tankewol

Further reading

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  • “tanke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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