senken

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German

Etymology

From Old High German senken, from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną. Causative of sinken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɛŋkən/,
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  • Hyphenation: sen‧ken

Verb

senken (weak, third-person singular present senkt, past tense senkte, past participle gesenkt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to lower

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

senken

  1. Rōmaji transcription of せんけん

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *senken, from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

Verb

senken

  1. to cause to sink

Inflection

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Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: zenken

Further reading