dunken

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʏŋkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: dun‧ken
• Rhymes: -ʏŋkən

From Middle Dutch dunken, from Old Dutch thunken, from Proto-West Germanic *þunkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þunkijaną.

dunken

1. (impersonal) to think, to consider
2. (copulative) to seem

Dunken is one of a few Dutch verbs where the object is the one having an opinion about something, and the subject is the thing it concerns. For example, het dunkt mij goed means 'I think/consider it good'. For this reason it is generally used impersonally.

The past tense forms are archaic and rarely used.

• bedunken
• dunk
• goeddunken

Borrowed from English dunk.

dunken

1. (transitive, basketball) to dunk

From Old Dutch thunken, from Proto-West Germanic *þunkijan.

dunken

1. to deem, to judge
2. to seem

• dinken (Flemish)
• donken

• Dutch: dunken
• Limburgish: dönke

• “dunken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dunken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

dunken m

1. singular definite of dunk