tanke
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tankə/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ə]
Etymology 1
From Old Danish tanckæ, borrowed from Middle Low German danke (with the initial consonant of the related verb Danish tænke (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Swedish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.
Inflection
Alternative forms
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German dankōn, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaŋ.kə/
Verb
tanke
- to thank
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
- awer, ap xeele, tanke, knaps – mas, descascar, agradecer, rarefeito.
- but, to peel, to thank, scarce – but, to peel, to thank, scarce
- (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)
- awer, ap xeele, tanke, knaps – mas, descascar, agradecer, rarefeito.
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.
Derived terms
Related terms
- tenke (verb)
Etymology 2
From the noun tank.
References
- “tanke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tɑnçə/, /²tɑŋkə/
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.
Derived terms
Verb
tanke (present tense tankar, past tense tanka, past participle tanka, passive infinitive tankast, present participle tankande, imperative tanke/tank)
- Alternative form of tanka
References
- “tanke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
tanke
- inflection of tanak:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Sidamo

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtanke/
- Hyphenation: tan‧ke
Declension
unmodified | modified | |
---|---|---|
predicative | tanke | |
nominative | tanke | tanke |
genitive | tankete*) | tanke*) |
dative | tankete | tankera |
accusative | tanke*) | |
ablative | tanketenni | tankenni |
*) Stressed on the final vowel. |
References
- Ruth Kramer; Anbessa Teferra (2020), “Gender switch in Sidaama”, in Brill's journal of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics, volume 12, page 305
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish þanke, borrowed from Middle Low German danke, with the initial consonant of the related verb Swedish tänka (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Danish tanke, Norwegian tanke, and Icelandic þanki.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²taŋːkɛ/, [²t̪ʰäŋːkɛ̠]
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Declension
Declension of tanke | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tanke | tanken | tankar | tankarna |
Genitive | tankes | tankens | tankars | tankarnas |
Derived terms
- tankeställning
- tankeverksamhet
Further reading
- tanke in Svensk ordbok.
West Frisian
Etymology
Ultimately from a form of Proto-Germanic *þankaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaŋkə/
Further reading
- “tanke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011