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German
- jücken (dialectal, else obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German jucken, jücken, from Old High German jucchen, from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan. The form with -u- shows (chiefly Upper German) umlaut hindrance before a velar geminate; here likely reinforced by the desire to avoid jü- (which only exists in jüdisch and jünger, both derived forms; cf. also the total absence of ji-).
Pronunciation
Verb
jucken (weak, third-person singular present juckt, past tense juckte, past participle gejuckt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to itch (feel itchy)
- Mein Arm juckt. ― My arm is itching.
- (transitive, sometimes impersonal) to itch (cause an itchy feeling)
- Der Arm juckt mich. (literally, “The arm itches me.”)
- Es juckt mich am Arm. (literally, “It itches me on the arm.”)
- (slightly informal) to itch (scratch as to relieve an itch)
- Synonym: kratzen
- Juck mich mal hier am Arm! ― Itch me here on my arm please.
- (informal, transitive, impersonal) to itch, to cause an urge
- Es juckt mich, dir von gestern zu erzählen. ― I'm itching to tell you about yesterday. (literally, “It's itching me to tell you about yesterday.”)
- (colloquial, transitive, often in negation) to concern, interest
- Was jucken mich deine Problemchen?! ― What do I care about your little problems?! (literally, “What do your little problems itch me?!”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
jucken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
jucken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jucken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “jucken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “jucken” in Duden online
- “jucken” in OpenThesaurus.de