checken
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛkə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: chec‧ken
- Rhymes: -ɛkən
Inflection
Synonyms
Derived terms
- afchecken
- inchecken
- nachecken
- uitchecken
Related terms
Descendants
- →? Sranan Tongo: kèk
- → Caribbean Javanese: tyèg, ngetyèg
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛkən/, [ˈtʃɛkŋ̩]
Audio (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)
- (transitive) to check (up), to inspect, examine
- Ich werde die Sache mal checken. ― I'm going to have a look at this.
- (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.
- (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
infinitive | checken | ||||
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present participle | checkend | ||||
past participle | gecheckt gechecked1 | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich checke | wir checken | i | ich checke | wir checken |
du checkst | ihr checkt | du checkest | ihr checket | ||
er checkt | sie checken | er checke | sie checken | ||
preterite | ich checkte | wir checkten | ii | ich checkte2 | wir checkten2 |
du checktest | ihr checktet | du checktest2 | ihr checktet2 | ||
er checkte | sie checkten | er checkte2 | sie checkten2 | ||
imperative | check (du) checke (du) |
checkt (ihr) |
1Proscribed.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
1Proscribed.
Derived terms
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