tunken
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]With irregular devoicing from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German thunkōn, whence also (through Pennsylvania German) English dunk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tunken (weak, third-person singular present tunkt, past tense tunkte, past participle getunkt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to dip, dunk (immerse briefly or partly into a liquid or (of food) a condiment or sauce)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | tunken | ||||
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present participle | tunkend | ||||
past participle | getunkt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich tunke | wir tunken | i | ich tunke | wir tunken |
du tunkst | ihr tunkt | du tunkest | ihr tunket | ||
er tunkt | sie tunken | er tunke | sie tunken | ||
preterite | ich tunkte | wir tunkten | ii | ich tunkte1 | wir tunkten1 |
du tunktest | ihr tunktet | du tunktest1 | ihr tunktet1 | ||
er tunkte | sie tunkten | er tunkte1 | sie tunkten1 | ||
imperative | tunk (du) tunke (du) |
tunkt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Hungarian: tunkol
Further reading
[edit]- “tunken” in Duden online
- “tunken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “tunken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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