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Balken

Balken

See also: balken

German

Noun

Balken m (genitive Balkens, plural Balken)

  1. beam, crossbeam
    Das Dach wird von vier Balken gestützt.
    The roof is supported by four beams.
  2. bar (long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart; informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone)
  3. (music) beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)
  4. (heraldry) fess

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balken

balken

See also: Balken

Dutch

Verb

balken

  1. (intransitive) to bray, make a donkey's sound
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to utter asinine talk
  3. (intransitive) to bawl, cry, weep loudly
  4. (intransitive) to belt, sing loudly
Inflection
Inflection of balken (weak)
infinitive balken
past singular balkte
past participle gebalkt
infinitive balken
gerund balken n
verbal noun
present tense past tense
1st person singular balk balkte
2nd person sing. (jij) balkt balkte
2nd person sing. (u) balkt balkte
2nd person sing. (gij) balkt balkte
3rd person singular balkt balkte
plural balken balkten
subjunctive sing.1 balke balkte
subjunctive plur.1 balken balkten
imperative sing. balk
imperative plur.1 balkt
participles balkend gebalkt
1) Archaic.
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Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Noun

balken

  1. Plural form of balk

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