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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish צחקען (tskhoken, “to gamble”),[1] from Hebrew שיחק / שִׂחֵק (sikhék, “to play”) or צָחַק (tsakhák, “to laugh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtsɔkən/, ,
- Hyphenation: zo‧cken; pre-1996: zok‧ken
Verb
zocken (weak, third-person singular present zockt, past tense zockte, past participle gezockt, auxiliary haben)
- to gamble
- (video games) to play video games
- Synonyms: gamen, (Northern Germany) daddeln
2016 January 30, Eva Przybyla, “Es lebe der Videoabend!”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 47:Wer dann nach dem Film doch keine Lust mehr hat, mit seiner Begleitung über den Film zu streiten, trinkt halt weiter. Oder kickert im geräumigen Keller, raucht oder zockt an der Retro-Konsole. Nett ist das.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
zocken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
zocken (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Duden, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, ed. 1989
Further reading
- “zocken” in Duden online
- “zocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache