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drucken

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See also: Drucken, drücken, and Drücken

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German drucken, from Old High German drucchen, drukken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan (to press). Doublet of drücken (to press, push) with Upper German lack of umlaut before a velar geminate; the first German printers were in the south. Established as technical term for printing in the 17th century (see also bedrucken).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdrʊkən/, [ˈdʁʊ.kŋ̍], [-kən]
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Verb

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

  1. to print (a book, newspaper etc.)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *thrukken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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drucken

  1. to press

Inflection

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Conjugation of drucken (weak)
infinitive base form drucken
genitive druckens
dative druckene
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular drucke drucke
2nd person singular drucs, druckes drucs, druckes
3rd person singular druct, drucket drucke
1st person plural drucken drucken
2nd person plural druct, drucket druct, drucket
3rd person plural drucken drucken
imperative
singular druc, drucke
plural druct, drucket
present past
participle druckende

Descendants

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  • Dutch: drukken
    • Afrikaans: druk
    • Caribbean Javanese: nggedrig
    • Papiamentu: drùk, druk
  • Limburgish: drókke, drökke

Further reading

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Swedish

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Adjective

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drucken (not comparable)

  1. drunk; under the influence of alcohol

Declension

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Inflection of drucken
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular drucken
neuter singular drucket
plural druckna
masculine plural2 druckne
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 druckne
all druckna

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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Participle

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drucken

  1. past participle of dricka

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Anagrams

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