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German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French piquer or denominal from German Pike (“pike”) or both parallelly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]piken (weak, third-person singular present pikt, past tense pikte, past participle gepikt, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to prick, to sting, to pinch
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | piken | ||||
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present participle | pikend | ||||
past participle | gepikt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich pike | wir piken | i | ich pike | wir piken |
du pikst | ihr pikt | du pikest | ihr piket | ||
er pikt | sie piken | er pike | sie piken | ||
preterite | ich pikte | wir pikten | ii | ich pikte1 | wir pikten1 |
du piktest | ihr piktet | du piktest1 | ihr piktet1 | ||
er pikte | sie pikten | er pikte1 | sie pikten1 | ||
imperative | pik (du) pike (du) |
pikt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English *piccian, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną; equivalent to pyke (“point, pike”) + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]piken
- To pick at; to use a edged tool on (a surface)
- To pierce or deal a blow using the mouth.
- To grab a part of one's body with one's fingernails or teeth
- To remove with a sharp point; pick away; to remove undesired substances via the means of picking.
- To remove by means of grabbing or forcing; to take or grasp.
- To cleanse or tidy; to ensure one's own cleanliness.
- To pick, decide or elect; to make a choice or declare a preference.
- To gain possession of; to grab or grasp.
- To acquire or grasp an intangible mental quality such as knowledge, skill, or disposition; to gain.
- To seize, burgle, or pickpocket; to take illegally or illegitimately.
- (rare) To depart, leave, venture out.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of piken (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “pī̆ken, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pika f
Noun
[edit]piken m
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]piken
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