See also: Drucken, drücken, and Drücken

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German drucken, from Old High German drucchen, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan (to press). Doublet of drücken (to press, push) with Upper German lack of umlaut before a velar geminate; the first German printers were in the south.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʊkən/, [ˈdʁʊ.kŋ̍], [-kən]
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Verb

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drucken (weak, third-person singular present druckt, past tense druckte, past participle gedruckt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to print (a book, newspaper etc.)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • drucken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • drucken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • drucken” in Duden online
  • drucken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *thrukken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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drucken

  1. to press

Inflection

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Weak
Infinitive drucken
3rd sg. past
3rd pl. past
Past participle
Infinitive drucken
In genitive druckens
In dative druckene
Indicative Present Past
1st singular drucke
2nd singular drucs, druckes
3rd singular druct, drucket
1st plural drucken
2nd plural druct, drucket
3rd plural drucken
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular drucke
2nd singular drucs, druckes
3rd singular drucke
1st plural drucken
2nd plural druct, drucket
3rd plural drucken
Imperative Present
Singular druc, drucke
Plural druct, drucket
Present Past
Participle druckende

Descendants

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  • Dutch: drukken
    • Afrikaans: druk
    • Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig
    • Papiamentu: drùk, druk
  • Limburgish: drókke, drökke

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Adjective

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drucken (not comparable)

  1. drunk; under the influence of alcohol

Declension

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Inflection of drucken
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular drucken
Neuter singular drucket
Plural druckna
Masculine plural3 druckne
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 druckne
All druckna
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
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Participle

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drucken

  1. past participle of dricka

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Anagrams

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