See also: tenke, tänka, tǎnkè, and tænke

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tankə/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ə]

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Danish tanckæ, borrowed from Middle Low German danke (with the initial consonant of the related verb Danish tænke (think). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Swedish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.

Noun edit

tanke c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanker)

  1. thought
  2. idea
  3. intention
Inflection edit

Etymology 2 edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

tanke c

  1. indefinite plural of tank

Verb edit

tanke (imperative tank, infinitive at tanke, present tense tanker, past tense tankede, perfect tense har tanket)

  1. tank up, fill up
  2. refuel

Dutch edit

Verb edit

tanke

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of tanken

Anagrams edit

Hunsrik edit

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old High German dankōn, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tanke

  1. to thank
    • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:
      awer, ap xeele, tanke, knaps – mas, descascar, agradecer, rarefeito.
      but, to peel, to thank, scarce – but, to peel, to thank, scarce
      (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

Conjugation edit

Regular
infinitive tanke
participle getankd
auxiliary hon
present
indicative
imperative
ich tanke
du tankst tank
er/sie/es tankd
meer tanke
deer tankd tankd
sie tanke
The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end.

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

Noun edit

tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

  1. thought
  2. intent
  3. idea
  4. an imaginary small unit of something; a tad
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From the noun tank.

Verb edit

tanke (present tense tanker, past tense tanka or tanket, past participle tanka or tanket)

  1. to tank, tank up, fill up, (put fuel into a tank)

References edit

Anagrams edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /²tɑnçə/, /²tɑŋkə/

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

Noun edit

tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

  1. thought
  2. intent
  3. idea
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

tanke (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanke/tank)

  1. Alternative form of tanka

References edit

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

tanke

  1. inflection of tankar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian edit

Adjective edit

tanke

  1. inflection of tanak:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Sidamo edit

 
Tanke.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English tank.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtanke/
  • Hyphenation: tan‧ke

Noun edit

tanke f 

  1. tank (armoured vehicle)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Ruth Kramer; Anbessa Teferra (2020), “Gender switch in Sidaama”, in Brill's journal of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics, volume 12, page 305

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish þanke, borrowed from Middle Low German danke, with the initial consonant of the related verb Swedish tänka (think). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Danish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /²taŋːkɛ/, [²t̪ʰäŋːkɛ̠]
  • (file)

Noun edit

tanke c

  1. thought

Declension edit

Declension of tanke 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tanke tanken tankar tankarna
Genitive tankes tankens tankars tankarnas

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

West Frisian edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from a form of Proto-Germanic *þankaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

tanke

  1. thanks, thank you
    Synonym: tankewol

Further reading edit

  • tanke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011