checken

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English check.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛkə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: chec‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɛkən

Verb

checken

  1. (transitive) to check (up), to inspect, examine

Inflection

Conjugation of checken (weak)
infinitive checken
past singular checkte
past participle gecheckt
infinitive checken
gerund checken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular checkcheckte
2nd person sing. (jij) checktcheckte
2nd person sing. (u) checktcheckte
2nd person sing. (gij) checktcheckte
3rd person singular checktcheckte
plural checkencheckten
subjunctive sing.1 checkecheckte
subjunctive plur.1 checkencheckten
imperative sing. check
imperative plur.1 checkt
participles checkendgecheckt
1) Archaic.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Sranan Tongo: kèk
    • Caribbean Javanese: tyèg, ngetyèg

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English check + -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛkən/, [ˈtʃɛkŋ̩]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: che‧cken; pre-1996: chek‧ken

Verb

checken (weak or irregular weak, third-person singular present checkt, past tense checkte, past participle gecheckt or (proscribed) gechecked, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to check (up), to inspect, examine
    Ich werde die Sache mal checken.I'm going to have a look at this.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) to grasp, understand
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:begreifen
    Ich habe gar nichts gecheckt.I didn't understand a thing.
    • 2000, “Da Draussen”, in Fettes Brot für die Welt, performed by Fettes Brot:
      Was wir heute produzieren wird erst in Jahren dann gecheckt
      What we produce today will only be understood years later.
  3. (juvenile slang) to get, to procure, to obtain, to gain
    Synonym: klären
    Antonym: verchecken
    Ich hab uns ein Bier gecheckt.I got us a beer.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • checken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • checken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • checken” in Duden online
  • checken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Verb

checken (third-person singular present checkt, past participle gecheckt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to check

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive checken
participle gecheckt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular checken
2nd singular checks check
3rd singular checkt
1st plural checken
2nd plural checkt checkt
3rd plural checken
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Swedish

Noun

checken

  1. definite singular of check
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