Danish edit

Etymology edit

Originally a past participle of drikke (to drink). Compare, in the same sense, English drunken, drunk, German trunken, Dutch dronken.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /drokən/, [ˈd̥ʁɔɡ̊ŋ̩]

Adjective edit

drukken (neuter drukkent, plural and definite singular attributive drukne)

  1. drunk
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fuld

Related terms edit

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʏkə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: druk‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ʏkən

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch drucken, from Old Dutch *thrucken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną.

Verb edit

drukken

  1. (intransitive) to press
  2. (transitive, printing) to print
  3. (reflexive, hunting, of a hunted animal) to hide (by pressing its body close to the ground)
  4. (reflexive, colloquial) to shirk
Inflection edit
Inflection of drukken (weak)
infinitive drukken
past singular drukte
past participle gedrukt
infinitive drukken
gerund drukken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular druk drukte
2nd person sing. (jij) drukt drukte
2nd person sing. (u) drukt drukte
2nd person sing. (gij) drukt drukte
3rd person singular drukt drukte
plural drukken drukten
subjunctive sing.1 drukke drukte
subjunctive plur.1 drukken drukten
imperative sing. druk
imperative plur.1 drukt
participles drukkend gedrukt
1) Archaic.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: druk
  • Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig
  • Papiamentu: drùk, druk

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

drukken

  1. plural of druk

Anagrams edit