German

Verb

sinken ‎(class 3 strong, third-person singular simple present sinkt, past tense sank, past participle gesunken, past subjunctive sänke, auxiliary sein)

1. (intransitive) to sink; to submerge; to set; to fall from the sky

   Die Sonne ist gesunken.‎

   The sun has set.

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of prices, temperature, quantities, rates, etc.) to fall; to drop; to decline

Conjugation

Derived terms

• absinken
• einsinken
• versinken
• Sinkflug

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sinkan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- ‎(“to fall, sink”).

Verb

sinken

1. (intransitive) to sink (in water)
2. (intransitive) to drop, to go down
3. (intransitive) to collapse

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zinken

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sinket

Noun

sinken m, n

1. definite masculine singular of sink

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sinket

Noun

sinken m, n

1. definite masculine singular of sink