drinken

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

drinken

1. (nonstandard, archaic) past participle of drink

   Has he eaten or drinken anything today?

The usual past participle of the verb to drink is drunk, which is found in the overwhelming majority of cases. The form "drinken" is an overregularization based on forms such as eat/eaten and beat/beaten. It is more common in spoken language than in written form.

• kendrin

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drinken c

1. definite singular of drink

• IPA^(key): /ˈdriŋkə(n)/, /ˈdrɪŋkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: drin‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

From Middle Dutch drinken, from Old Dutch drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

drinken

1. (transitive, intransitive) to drink, consume a liquid
2. (intransitive) to be an alcoholic

• Afrikaans: drink
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dronggi
• Negerhollands: drink, dring, drin
• → Aukan: dingii

Gerund of the verb drinken.

drinken n (uncountable)

1. drink, beverage

   Synonym: drank

From Middle Low German drinken.

drinken (third-person singular simple present drinkt, past tense drunk, past participle drunken, auxiliary verb hebben)
drinken (third-person singular simple present drinkt, past tense drünk, past participle drunken, auxiliary verb hewwen)

1. to drink

• Drinkel
• drunken
• bedrunken
• Gedränk

From Old Dutch drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.

drinken

1. to drink

• Dutch: drinken
  • Afrikaans: drink
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: dronggi
  • Negerhollands: drink, dring, drin
  • → Aukan: dingii
• Limburgish: drinke

• “drinken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drinken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• drynken

From Old English drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

drinken

1. to drink

• English: drink (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: drink
• Yola: drink

• “drinken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• wyn

From Old Saxon drinkan (“to drink”).

• IPA^(key): /drɪŋkən/

drinken

1. to drink

• Low German: drinken

drinken

1. definite singular of drink