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Drucken

Drucken

See also: drucken, drücken, and Drücken

German

Noun

Drucken m

  1. dative plural of Druck

drucken

drucken

See also: Drucken, drücken, and Drücken

German

Verb

drucken ‎(third-person singular simple present druckt, past tense druckte, past participle gedruckt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to print

Conjugation

Related terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *thrukken, from Proto-Germanic *þrukjaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʏkːən/

Verb

drucken

  1. to press

Conjugation

Descendants

Swedish

Adjective

drucken (not comparable)

  1. drunk; under the influence of alcohol

Declension

Inflection of drucken
Indefinite/attributive Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular drucken — —
Neuter singular drucket — —
Plural druckna — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 druckne — —
All druckna — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Related terms

  • sömndrucken

Verb

drucken

  1. past participle of dricka.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þrukjaną ‎(“to press”), *þrūganą ‎(“to threaten”), from Proto-Indo-European *trūk-, *trūg- ‎(“to press, beat”). Cognate with Dutch drukken ‎(“to press, print”), Danish trykke ‎(“to press”), English thrutch ‎(“to throng”) and, outside Germanic, with Albanian ndryqem ‎(“to stretch”). Closely cognate with German drücken ‎(“to press, push”): drucken is originally the southern form; the first German printers were in the south.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdʁʊkŋ̩], [ˈdʁʊkən]

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