nerven
See also: Nerven
English
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editnerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)
- (transitive, rare) To innerve.
- 1944, Magazine Antiques, volume 45, page 261:
- […] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt[sic] all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up.
- 1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93:
- Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
- 1987, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39:
- […] Circling like cats
around a possibility that might,
nervened, we touch together almost quite.
Dutch
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editnerven
German
editEtymology
editFrom Nerv (“nerve”) via the expression auf die Nerven gehen (“to get on (someone's) nerves”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁfən/, [nɛʁfən], [ˈnɛɐ̯-], [-fn̩] (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁvən/ (less common)
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ner‧ven
Verb
editnerven (weak, third-person singular present nervt, past tense nervte, past participle genervt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) to annoy, to irritate [with accusative ‘someone’]
- Synonym: ärgern
- Es nervt mich. ― It bugs me.
- Das nervt. ― This/That is annoying.
Conjugation
editinfinitive | nerven | ||||
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present participle | nervend | ||||
past participle | genervt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich nerve | wir nerven | i | ich nerve | wir nerven |
du nervst | ihr nervt | du nervest | ihr nervet | ||
er nervt | sie nerven | er nerve | sie nerven | ||
preterite | ich nervte | wir nervten | ii | ich nervte1 | wir nervten1 |
du nervtest | ihr nervtet | du nervtest1 | ihr nervtet1 | ||
er nervte | sie nervten | er nervte1 | sie nervten1 | ||
imperative | nerv (du) nerve (du) |
nervt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
editNorwegian Bokmål
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editnerven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
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editnerven m
Swedish
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editnerven
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