trekke
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"træk" (pull), verb in imperative form.
See also: trékke
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed via English trek from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken. Doublet of trække.
Pronunciation
Conjugation
trekke (past tense trekkede, past participle trekket)
- to trek
Inflection of trekke
References
- “trekke” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Verb
trekke
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German trecken; cognate with Danish trække.
Verb
trekke (imperative trekk, present tense trekker, passive trekkes, simple past trakk, past participle trukket, present participle trekkende)
- to pull
- to subtract
- to draw (e.g. a conclusion)
- (cooking) to steep (soak an item in liquid)
- (zoology, of animals, birds etc.) to migrate
- trekke (seg) tilbake - to withdraw, retreat
- trekke (seg) - to consider
Derived terms
Related terms
- trekk (noun)
References
- “trekke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian trekka, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan (“to drag”).
Verb
trekke
Inflection
| Strong | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | trekke | |||
| 3rd singular past | triek | |||
| past participle | trutsen | |||
| infinitive | trekke | |||
| long infinitive | trekken | |||
| gerund | trekken n | |||
| auxiliary | hawwe | |||
| indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st singular | trek | triek | ||
| 2nd singular | trekst | triekst | ||
| 3rd singular | trekt | triek | ||
| plural | trekke | trieken | ||
| imperative | trek | |||
| participles | trekkend | trutsen | ||
- Variant past-tense 1st: truts
- Variant past-tense 2nd: trutst
- Variant past-tense 3rd: truts
- Variant past plural: trutsen
Further reading
- “trekke”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011