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German
Etymology
From Old High German henken, an Upper German variant of hengen. The verb originally meant “to hang” in general, but was restricted to the context of execution in the modern written language. See hängen for more.
Pronunciation
Verb
henken (weak, third-person singular present henkt, past tense henkte, past participle gehenkt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, dated or archaic) to hang; to execute by hanging
- Synonym: hängen
Usage notes
- Inflected forms in which the stem henk- is followed by a consonant are—according to any not stilted pronunciation—homophonous with the corresponding forms of hängen, and can therefore be considered spelling variants of the latter. Some writers may use the spelling henk- instead of häng- because it is suggestive of Henker (“hangman”).
- Those forms in which the stem henk- is not followed by a consonant (henk, henke, henken, henkend) are audibly distinct from hängen. These are rarely used anymore.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
henken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
henken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “henken” in Duden online
- “henken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Japanese
Romanization
henken
- Rōmaji transcription of へんけん