boxen
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɒksən
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.
Adjective
[edit]boxen (comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen)
Etymology 2
[edit]From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen.[1]
Noun
[edit]boxen
- (nonstandard, humorous) plural of box (“computer”)
- 2004, Joel Spolsky, chapter 40, in Joel on Software, Apress, →ISBN, page 287:
- Reality: Sun and HP are hardware companies. They make boxen.
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German
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[edit]boxen (weak, third-person singular present boxt, past tense boxte, past participle geboxt, auxiliary haben)
- to box (strike with the fists)
- 1769, Henry Brooke, “Herrn Brookens vornehmer Thor; oder Heinrichs Grafen von Moreland Geschichte. Aus dem Englischen. I Theil. [The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland]”, in Landbibliothek zu einem angenehmen und lehrreichen Zeitvertreibe aus verschiedenen Sprachen zusammengetragen, volume 16, Leipzig: M. G. Weidmanns Erben und Reich, pages 275–276:
- „Wozu soll ich mich ausziehen?“ saget Thoms.
„Zum Bocksen:“ antwortet Heinrich.
„Warum wolltest du dich mit mir bocksen, Heinz? Ich habe dich ja gewiß nicht geschlagen:“ sagete Thoms.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | boxen | ||||
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present participle | boxend | ||||
past participle | geboxt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich boxe | wir boxen | i | ich boxe | wir boxen |
du boxt | ihr boxt | du boxest | ihr boxet | ||
er boxt | sie boxen | er boxe | sie boxen | ||
preterite | ich boxte | wir boxten | ii | ich boxte1 | wir boxten1 |
du boxtest | ihr boxtet | du boxtest1 | ihr boxtet1 | ||
er boxte | sie boxten | er boxte1 | sie boxten1 | ||
imperative | box (du) boxe (du) |
boxt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “boxen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “boxen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “boxen” in Duden online
- “boxen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Luxembourgish
[edit]Verb
[edit]boxen (third-person singular present boxt, past participle geboxt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to box
Conjugation
[edit]Regular | ||
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infinitive | boxen | |
participle | geboxt | |
auxiliary | hunn | |
present indicative |
imperative | |
1st singular | boxen | — |
2nd singular | box | box |
3rd singular | boxt | — |
1st plural | boxen | — |
2nd plural | boxt | boxt |
3rd plural | boxen | — |
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. |
Swedish
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