drenke
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German drinken, from Old High German *drinkan, northern variant of trinkan.
Pronunciation
Verb
drenke (third-person singular present drenk or drenkt, past tense dronk, past participle jedronke or gedronke or gedronk)
- (most dialects) to drink
- Jetz drenke mer us iersch ens eent on dann kanns de mer deng Neuigkeete verzälle.
- We’ll drink one first of all, and then you can tell me your news.
Usage notes
- The past tense does not exist in all dialects of Moselle Franconian.
- Otherwise the forms drenk; jedronke are Ripuarian, while drenkt; gedronk(e) are Moselle Franconian.
- A reflexive dative following the verb (like us in the example sentence above) expresses “to drink with ease, coziness”.
Verb
drenke
Etymology
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