dronken
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdrɔŋ.kə(n)/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: dron‧ken
- Rhymes: -ɔŋkən
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch dronken, from Old Dutch drunkan, from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz.
Adjective
dronken (comparative dronkener, superlative dronkenst)
- drunk, drunken, in a state of intoxication after drinking alcohol beverages
- Synonyms: zat, bezopen, blauw, beschonken, lazarus
Declension
| Declension of dronken | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | dronken | |||
| inflected | dronken | |||
| comparative | dronkener | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | dronken | dronkener | het dronkenst het dronkenste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste |
| n. sing. | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| plural | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| definite | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| partitive | dronkens | dronkeners | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: dronk
- Berbice Creole Dutch: drunggu
- Negerhollands: dronk, drun, drunk
- → Sranan Tongo: drungu
- → Saramaccan: dòongò
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dronken
- inflection of drinken:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
Anagrams
Middle English
Verb
dronken
- past participle of drynken
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.- And when he had drunk all the wine
He would not speak a word other than Latin
- And when he had drunk all the wine
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue