trekke

Dutch

Verb

trekke

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of trekken

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German trecken; cognate with Danish trække.

Verb

trekke (imperative trekk, present tense trekker, passive trekkes, simple past trakk, past participle trukket, present participle trekkende)

  1. to pull
  2. to subtract
  3. to draw (e.g. a conclusion)
  4. (cooking) to steep (soak an item in liquid)
  5. (zoology, of animals, birds etc.) to migrate
  6. trekke (seg) tilbake - to withdraw, retreat
  7. trekke (seg) - to consider

Derived terms

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian trekka, from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną (to drag), causative of Proto-Germanic *trekaną (to push, draw, scratch), from Proto-Indo-European *dereg- (to pull). Compare with Low German trecken, Dutch trekken.

Verb

trekke

  1. to pull

Usage notes

Note that triek, triekst and trieken can be used as synonyms for truts, trutst and trutsen, respectively.

Conjugation

Synonyms

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