unken
See also: Unken
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈkɛn/
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Verb
unken (third-person singular simple present unkens, present participle unkenning, simple past and past participle unkenned)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊŋkən/
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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊŋkn̩/
Audio (file)
Verb
unken (weak, third-person singular present unkt, past tense unkte, past participle geunkt, auxiliary haben)
- to prophesy doom
- Synonyms: menetekeln, schwarzmalen
- 2022 April 2, Klaus Walter, “Techno und Rauschzustände”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 19:
- Viele hatten schon nicht mehr dran geglaubt. Und wer weiß, vielleicht kommt doch noch was dazwischen, wird hier und da geunkt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
infinitive | unken | ||||
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present participle | unkend | ||||
past participle | geunkt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich unke | wir unken | i | ich unke | wir unken |
du unkst | ihr unkt | du unkest | ihr unket | ||
er unkt | sie unken | er unke | sie unken | ||
preterite | ich unkte | wir unkten | ii | ich unkte1 | wir unkten1 |
du unktest | ihr unktet | du unktest1 | ihr unktet1 | ||
er unkte | sie unkten | er unkte1 | sie unkten1 | ||
imperative | unk (du) unke (du) |
unkt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Sumerian
Swedish
Etymology
Uncertain. Proposals have been made connecting it with Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet; moist”) (and thus Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós) and Latin ūvidus), or with the Proto-Indo-European root behind Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) and Latin inguen.
Declension
Inflection of unken | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | unken | unknare | unknast |
Neuter singular | unket | unknare | unknast |
Plural | unkna | unknare | unknast |
Masculine plural3 | unkne | unknare | unknast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | unkne | unknare | unknaste |
All | unkna | unknare | unknaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
References
- unken in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- unken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- unken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- unken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- Sven Ekbo, John Svensson, K.G. Ljunggren, Bertil Ejder, Bertil Björseth, Erik Abrahamson, Lennart Moberg, Axel Lindqvist (1952) Meijerbergs arkiv för svensk ordforskning, volume 8, Göteborg, page 101
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