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nerven

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English

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Etymology

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From nerve +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)

  1. (transitive, rare) To innerve.
    • 1944, Magazine Antiques, volume 45, page 261:
      [] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt[sic] all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up.
    • 1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93:
      Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
    • 1987, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39:
      [] Circling like cats
      around a possibility that might,
      nervened, we touch together almost quite.

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛrvən

Noun

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nerven

  1. plural of nerf

German

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Etymology

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From Nerv (nerve) via the expression auf die Nerven gehen (to get on (someone's) nerves).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁfən/, [nɛʁfən], [ˈnɛɐ̯-], [-fn̩] (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁvən/ (less common)
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  • Hyphenation: ner‧ven

Verb

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nerven (weak, third-person singular present nervt, past tense nervte, past participle genervt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) to annoy, to irritate [with accusative ‘someone’]
    Synonyms: ärgern, stören, belästigen, verärgern, verdrießen, aufregen, (informal) vergrätzen, erregen, krank machen, auf die Nerven gehen, belästigen, verstimmen, quälen, plagen, anzipfen, enervieren, irritieren, reizen, fuchsen
    Es nervt mich.It bugs me.
    Das nervt.This/That is annoying.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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nerven m

  1. definite singular of nerve

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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nerven m

  1. definite singular of nerve

Swedish

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Noun

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nerven

  1. definite singular of nerv