drenke
Central Franconian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German drinken, from Old High German *drinkan, northern variant of trinkan.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdrenke (third-person singular present drenk or drenkt, past tense dronk, past participle jedronke or gedronke or gedronk)
- (most dialects) to drink
- Jetz drenke mer us iersch ens eent on dann kanns de mer deng Neuigkeete verzälle.
- We’ll drink one first of all, and then you can tell me your news.
Usage notes
edit- The past tense does not exist in all dialects of Moselle Franconian.
- Otherwise the forms drenk; jedronke are Ripuarian, while drenkt; gedronk(e) are Moselle Franconian.
- A reflexive dative following the verb (like us in the example sentence above) expresses “to drink with ease, coziness”.
Dutch
editVerb
editdrenke
Pennsylvania German
editEtymology
editCompare German tränken, Dutch drenken, English drench.
Verb
editdrenke
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