Danish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /drokən/, [ˈd̥ʁɔɡ̊ŋ̩]

Adjective

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

  1. drunk
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fuld
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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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drukken

  1. (intransitive) to press
    Synonym: duwen
  2. (transitive, printing) to print
    Synonym: afdrukken
  3. (reflexive, hunting, of a hunted animal) to hide (by pressing its body close to the ground)
  4. (reflexive, colloquial) to shirk
  5. (intransitive) to defecate
    Synonyms: poepen, schijten, kakken, ontlasten
Conjugation
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Conjugation 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, druk2 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. 2) In case of inversion.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: druk
  • Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig
  • Papiamentu: drùk, druk

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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drukken

  1. plural of druk

Anagrams

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