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zinken

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈzɪŋkə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: zin‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch sinken, from Old Dutch *sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (to fall, sink).

Verb

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zinken

  1. (intransitive) to sink
    De boot is gezonken.
    The boat has sunk.
Conjugation
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Conjugation of zinken (strong class 3a)
infinitive zinken
past singular zonk
past participle gezonken
infinitive zinken
gerund zinken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular zink zonk
2nd person sing. (jij) zinkt, zink2 zonk
2nd person sing. (u) zinkt zonk
2nd person sing. (gij) zinkt zonkt
3rd person singular zinkt zonk
plural zinken zonken
subjunctive sing.1 zinke zonke
subjunctive plur.1 zinken zonken
imperative sing. zink
imperative plur.1 zinkt
participles zinkend gezonken
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: sink
  • Javindo: sing
  • Negerhollands: senk, sink

Etymology 2

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From zink +‎ -en.

Adjective

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zinken (not comparable)

  1. made of zinc
Declension
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Declension of zinken
uninflected zinken
inflected zinken
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial
indefinite m./f. sing. zinken
n. sing. zinken
plural zinken
definite zinken
partitive

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɪŋkn̩/, [ˈt͡sɪŋkŋ̩]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: zin‧ken

Etymology 1

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Zink +‎ -en

Adjective

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zinken (no predicative form, strong nominative masculine singular zinkener, not comparable)

  1. (relational) zinc
    ein zinkener Eimer, eine zinkene Wannea zinc bucket/a bucket made of zinc, a zinc bathtub/a bathtub made of zinc
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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  • Sense 1 was borrowed in the beginning of the 20th century from Rotwelsch, a cant or thieves' argot, in which its verb zinkenen is documented since the 19th century.[1]
  • Sense 2 is probably derived from the Rotwelsch locution Zinken stecken “to drop a hint, to tip-off, to give a signal”.[1]

Verb

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zinken (weak, third-person singular present zinkt, past tense zinkte, past participle gezinkt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (card games) mark
    Falschspieler sind bekannt dafür, ihre Karten zu zinken.
    Card sharps are well-known to mark their cards.
    Er zinkte Buben und Asse.
    He marked jacks and aces.
  2. (slang) mark (something, someone) by giving a sign/signal/hint/tip-off and thus give away (sb. or sth. to sb.)
    Die Sache kam ans Licht, weil einer von ihnen gezinkt hatte.
    The affair came to light because one of them had given [them or information, etc.] away.
    • 1929, Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Achtes Buch, Olten, Freiburg im Breisgau: Walter Verlag, published 1961, →ISBN, page 409; republished as Eugène Jolas, transl., Berlin Alexanderplatz. The Story of Franz Biberkopf, 2004:
      Dem Stellmacher schickt er einen Kassiber zu, Reinhold ist schuld, hat gezinkt, ich sage, er ist bei gewesen.
      He sends a secret note to the weelwright to say it’s Reinhold’s fault, he gave 'em away, I'll say he was in on it.
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Derived terms
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 zinken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Further reading

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  • zinken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • zinken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • zinken” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • zinken” in Duden online

Swedish

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Noun

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zinken

  1. definite singular of zink