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English
Etymology
Equivalent to stock + -en (plural ending).
Noun
stocken
- (obsolete) plural of stock
German
Pronunciation
Verb
stocken (weak, third-person singular present stockt, past tense stockte, past participle gestockt, auxiliary haben)
- to stop, to attain stagnation or cease to proceed
- Synonym: stillstehen
- to stagnate, to have no progress
- 1912, Franz Kafka, Das Urteil, in: Arkadia. Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst, Kurt Wolff (1913), page 53:
Nun betrieb er ein Geschäft in Petersburg, das anfangs sich sehr gut angelassen hatte, seit langem aber schon zu stocken schien, wie der Freund bei seinen immer seltener werdenden Besuchen klagte.- Now he ran a business in Petersburg, which had promised very well initially but seemed to have been stagnating already for a long time, as the friend complained during his visits, which became more and more rare.
- (cooking) to become consolidated as to have little fluidity
- (preservation of goods) to take damp damage
- (forestry jargon) to stand, to be rowed
- (stonemasonry) to work by hammer
- Coordinate terms: bossieren, riffeln, spitzeln, beilen, spitzen, kröneln, polieren, schleifen, scharrieren, strahlen
Conjugation
Conjugation of
stocken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
stocken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “stocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “stocken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “stocken” in Duden online
- “stocken” in OpenThesaurus.de
Swedish
Noun
stocken
- definite singular of stock