stuk

See also: Stuk, štuk, šťúk, and STUK

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stuk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stœk/
  • (file)

Noun

stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie)

  1. A piece, part.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʏk/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stuk
  • Rhymes: -ʏk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick.

Noun

stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n)

  1. A piece, part, share (of a whole).
    Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken.
    I’m cutting this pear in four pieces.
    Synonym: deel
  2. A theatrical piece, play, skit.
  3. A document (especially official).
  4. (board games) A playing piece.
    1. (chess) A piece, one of the playing pieces in chess usually excluding pawns.
  5. (colloquial) A hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender).
Derived terms

Noun

stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n)

  1. A piece, one (countable), an item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English)
    Zijn de peren vers? Geef me daar dan vier stuks van.
    Are the pears fresh? Then give me four of them.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: stuk, stek, stik, steki, stiki, teki
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: steki (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (to pieces).

Adjective

stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst)

  1. broken, rendered useless; out of order.
    Synonym: kapot
Usage notes
  • The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”).
Inflection
Inflection of stuk
uninflected stuk
inflected stukke
comparative stukker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stukstukkerhet stukst
het stukste
indefinite m./f. sing. stukkestukkerestukste
n. sing. stukstukkerstukste
plural stukkestukkerestukste
definite stukkestukkerestukste
partitive stuksstukkers
Derived terms
  • stukbijten
  • stukbreken
  • stukgaan
  • stukmaken
  • stukvallen
  • stukvriezen

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stukъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stuk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uk
  • Syllabification: stuk
  • Homophone: stóg

Noun

stuk m inan

  1. knock
    Synonym: stukot

Declension

Interjection

stuk

  1. (colloquial) knock!
    Synonym: puk
adjective
  • stukotliwy
noun
  • stukanina
verbs

Further reading

  • stuk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stuk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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