beuken
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbøː.kə(n)/
- Hyphenation: beu‧ken
- Rhymes: -øːkən
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch boken, bueken, perhaps related to pochen (“brag”), evolving from "defy" into "knock."[1]
Inflection
| Inflection of beuken (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | beuken | |||
| past singular | beukte | |||
| past participle | gebeukt | |||
| infinitive | beuken | |||
| gerund | beuken n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | beuk | beukte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | beukt | beukte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | beukt | beukte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | beukt | beukte | ||
| 3rd person singular | beukt | beukte | ||
| plural | beuken | beukten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | beuke | beukte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | beuken | beukten | ||
| imperative sing. | beuk | |||
| imperative plur.1 | beukt | |||
| participles | beukend | gebeukt | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
- afbeuken
- inbeuken
- losbeuken
Descendants
- Petjo: beuken
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch boekijn. Equivalent to beuk (“beech”) + -en.
Inflection
| Inflection of beuken | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | beuken | |||
| inflected | beuken | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | ||||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | beuken | ||
| n. sing. | beuken | |||
| plural | beuken | |||
| definite | beuken | |||
| partitive | ||||
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “boken”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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