checken

Borrowed from English check.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: chec‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɛkən

checken

1. (transitive) to check (up), to inspect, examine

• controleren
• nakijken

• afchecken
• inchecken
• nachecken
• uitchecken

• check
• checklist

• check-up

• →? Sranan Tongo: kèk
  • → Caribbean Javanese: tyèg, ngetyèg

Borrowed from English check +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkən/,

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: che‧cken; pre-1996: chek‧ken

checken (weak or irregular weak, third-person singular present checkt, past tense checkte, past participle gecheckt or (proscribed) gechecked, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to check (up), to inspect, examine

   Ich werde die Sache mal checken. ― I'm going to have a look at this.

2. (colloquial, transitive) to grasp, understand

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:begreifen

   Ich habe gar nichts gecheckt. ― I didn't understand a thing.

   • 2000, “Da Draussen”, in Fettes Brot für die Welt, performed by Fettes Brot:

     Was wir heute produzieren wird erst in Jahren dann gecheckt

     What we produce today will only be understood years later.

3. (juvenile slang) to get, to procure, to obtain, to gain

   Synonym: klären

   Antonym: verchecken

   Ich hab uns ein Bier gecheckt. ― I got us a beer.

• The senses 2 and 3 don't exist in English check.

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

checken (third-person singular present checkt, past participle gecheckt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to check

checken

1. definite singular of check