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drängen

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See also: drangen and Drängen

German

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Etymology

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From a merger of:

In either case, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (to beat, hew, press).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁɛŋən/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: drän‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋən

Verb

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drängen (weak, third-person singular present drängt, past tense drängte, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to press, to push
    • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 35:
      Immer mehr Leute drängten in den kleinen Raum und zwängten sich zwischen Tischen und Stühlen durch.
      More and more people pushed into the small room and squeezed themselves through between the tables and chairs.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Old High German drengen, from Proto-Germanic *þrangwijaną. Cognate with German drängen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdʀæŋen/, [ˈdʀæŋən]

Verb

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drängen (third-person singular present drängt, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to push

Conjugation

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Regular
infinitive drängen
participle gedrängt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular drängen
2nd singular drängs dräng
3rd singular drängt
1st plural drängen
2nd plural drängt drängt
3rd plural drängen

(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Swedish

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Noun

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drängen

  1. definite singular of dräng

Anagrams

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