sinken

From Middle High German sinken, from Old High German sinkan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan. Compare Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, English sink, Danish synke, Swedish sjunka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪŋkən/,

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• Hyphenation: sin‧ken

sinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present sinkt, past tense sank, past participle gesunken, past subjunctive sänke, auxiliary sein)

1. (intransitive) to sink; to submerge; to set; to fall from the sky

   Die Sonne ist gesunken.

   The sun has set.

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of prices, temperature, quantities, rates, etc.) to fall; to drop; to decline

• Sinker, Sinkung
• versinken

• Sinken
• sinkend, gesunken
• Sinkflug
• senken

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

From Old Dutch *sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan.

sinken

1. (intransitive) to sink (in water)
2. (intransitive) to drop, to go down
3. (intransitive) to collapse

• Dutch: zinken
• Limburgish: zinke

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

Inherited from Old High German sinkan.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠inkən/

sinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present sinket, past tense sank, past participle gesunken, past subjunctive sünke, auxiliary sīn)

1. to sink (intransitive)

• German: sinken

• sinket

sinken m or n

1. definite masculine singular of sink

• sinket

sinken m or n

1. definite masculine singular of sink