merken

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• Rhymes: -ɛrkən

From Middle Dutch merken, from Old Dutch merken, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną.

merken

1. to mark
2. to notice

   Synonyms: bemerken, opmerken

• Negerhollands: merk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

merken

1. plural of merk

• kermen

From Middle High German merken, from Old High German merchen, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną (“to mark, notice”). Cognate with Dutch merken and Icelandic merkja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʁkŋ̍/, /ˈmɛʁkən/

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merken (weak, third-person singular present merkt, past tense merkte, past participle gemerkt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to notice (a situation, difference not readily apparent)

   Man merkt das ja kaum. ― You barely notice it.

   Ich bin schwanger aber merke nichts. ― I'm pregnant but I can't feel anything.

2. (transitive, reflexive) to memorize, remember, learn

   Ich merkte mir alles. ― I memorized everything.

3. to realize
   • 1915 October, Franz Kafka, “Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]”, in Die Weißen Blätter […] ‎^[1], volume 2, number 10, Verlag der Weißen Bücher, page 1180:

     Zunächst wollte er ruhig und ungestört aufstehen, sich anziehen und vor allem frühstücken, und dann erst das Weitere überlegen, denn, das merkte er wohl, im Bett würde er mit dem Nachdenken zu keinem vernünftigen Ende kommen.

     To begin with, he wanted to get up calmly and undisturbed, get dressed and, above all, have breakfast, and only then think about everything else, because, as he realized well, in bed he would not come to a sensible conclusion with the thinking.

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

From Old Dutch merken.

merken

1. to mark, to put a mark on, to give a mark to
2. to watch attentively
3. to watch, to pay attention to, to notice

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: merken
• Limburgish: mèrke

• “merken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “merken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną.

merken

1. to mark, to put a mark on

• Middle Dutch: merken
  • Dutch: merken
  • Limburgish: mèrke

• “merken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

merken

1. plural of merk