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 tence 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

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

References

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
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