trekke

See also: trékke

Danish

"træk" (pull), verb in imperative form.

Etymology

Borrowed via English trek from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken. Doublet of trække.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɛkə/, [ˈtˢɹɛɡ̊ə], [ˈtˢʁ̥aɡ̊ə]

Conjugation

trekke (past tense trekkede, past participle trekket)

1. to trek

Inflection of trekke

	present	past
simple	trekker	trekkede
perfect	har trukket	havde trukket
passive	—	—
participle	trekkende	trukket
imperative	trek	—
infinitive	trekke	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	trekken	—

References

• “trekke” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Verb

trekke

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of trekken

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German trecken; cognate with Danish trække.

Verb

trekke (imperative trekk, present tense trekker, passive trekkes, simple past trakk, past participle trukket, present participle trekkende)

1. to pull
2. to subtract
3. to draw (e.g. a conclusion)
4. (cooking) to steep (soak an item in liquid)
5. (zoology, of animals, birds etc.) to migrate
6. trekke (seg) tilbake - to withdraw, retreat
7. trekke (seg) - to consider

Derived terms

• foretrekke
• heltrukket
• hestetrukket
• kaldtrukket
• tilbaketrekking, tilbaketrekning
• tiltrekke
• uttrekk

 

Related terms

• trekk (noun)

References

• “trekke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian trekka, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan (“to drag”).

Verb

trekke

1. to pull

   Synonym: lûke

Inflection

Strong
infinitive	trekke
3rd singular past	triek
past participle	trutsen
infinitive	trekke
long infinitive	trekken
gerund	trekken n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	trek	triek
2nd singular	trekst	triekst
3rd singular	trekt	triek
plural	trekke	trieken
imperative	trek
participles	trekkend	trutsen

• Variant past-tense 1st: truts
• Variant past-tense 2nd: trutst
• Variant past-tense 3rd: truts
• Variant past plural: trutsen

Further reading

• “trekke”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011