Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tankən/, [ˈtˢɑŋɡ̊ŋ̩]

Noun edit

tanken c

  1. definite singular of tanke (thought)

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tanˀkən/, [ˈtˢɑŋˀɡ̊ŋ̩]

Noun edit

tanken c

  1. definite singular of tank (container)

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /taːnˀkən/, [ˈtˢæːŋˀɡ̊ŋ̩]

Noun edit

tanken c

  1. definite singular of tank (armored vehicle)

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From English tank.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛŋkə(n)/
  • (file)

Verb edit

tanken

  1. (intransitive) to fuel (to fill a fuel tank of a vehicle)
  2. (intransitive, slang) to drink lots of alcohol

Inflection edit

Inflection of tanken (weak)
infinitive tanken
past singular tankte
past participle getankt
infinitive tanken
gerund tanken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular tank tankte
2nd person sing. (jij) tankt tankte
2nd person sing. (u) tankt tankte
2nd person sing. (gij) tankt tankte
3rd person singular tankt tankte
plural tanken tankten
subjunctive sing.1 tanke tankte
subjunctive plur.1 tanken tankten
imperative sing. tank
imperative plur.1 tankt
participles tankend getankt
1) Archaic.

Derived terms edit

Anagrams edit

German edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English tank. The reflexive use is from the now archaic sense "tank, armoured vehicle".

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaŋkən/, [ˈtaŋkən], [ˈtaŋkŋ̍]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tan‧ken

Verb edit

tanken (weak, third-person singular present tankt, past tense tankte, past participle getankt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to fuel, to refuel (fill a fuel tank of a vehicle)
  2. (transitive or intransitive, informal) to drink a lot of alcohol
  3. (reflexive, with some locative adverb) to move forcefully against resistance
    Der bullige Mittelstürmer tankt sich durch die gegnerische Abwehr.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

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

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

tanken

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんけん

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Noun edit

tanken m

  1. definite singular of tank
  2. definite singular of tanke

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Noun edit

tanken m

  1. definite singular of tank
  2. definite singular of tanke

Swedish edit

Noun edit

tanken

  1. definite singular of tank
  2. definite singular of tanke

Anagrams edit