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See also: Stuk, štuk, šťúk, and STUK

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Etymology

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From Dutch stuk.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /stœk/
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Noun

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stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie)

  1. A piece, part.

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick.

Noun

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stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n)

  1. a piece, part, share (of a whole)
    Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken.
    I’m cutting this pear in four pieces.
    Synonym: deel
  2. a theatrical piece, play, skit
  3. a document (especially official)
  4. (board games) a playing piece
    1. (chess) a piece, one of the playing pieces in chess usually excluding pawns
  5. (colloquial) a hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender)
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Noun

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stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n)

  1. a piece, one (countable), an item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English)
    Zijn de peren vers? Geef me daar dan vier stuks van.
    Are the pears fresh? Then give me four of them.
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Descendants
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  • Negerhollands: stuk, stek, stik, steki, stiki, teki
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: steki (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

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By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (to pieces).

Adjective

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stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst)

  1. broken, rendered useless; out of order
    Synonym: kapot
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  • The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”).
Declension
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Declension of stuk
uninflected stuk
inflected stukke
comparative stukker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stuk stukker het stukst
het stukste
indefinite m./f. sing. stukke stukkere stukste
n. sing. stuk stukker stukste
plural stukke stukkere stukste
definite stukke stukkere stukste
partitive stuks stukkers
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Anagrams

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Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stukъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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stuk m inan

  1. knock
    Synonym: stukot

Declension

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Interjection

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stuk

  1. (colloquial) knock!
    Synonym: puk
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Further reading

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  • stuk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stuk in Polish dictionaries at PWN