nerven
See also: Nerven
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)
- (transitive) To make nervous; innerve
- 1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93:
- Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
- 1988, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39:
- Circling like cats around a possibility that might, nervened, we touch together almost quite.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
nerven
- (deprecated template usage) Plural form of nerf
German
Pronunciation
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Verb
nerven (weak, third-person singular present nervt, past tense nervte, past participle genervt, auxiliary haben)
- to bug, to annoy
- Es nervt mich. ― It bugs me.
- to suck, to stink, to blow
- Das nervt. ― This/That sucks.
Conjugation
infinitive | nerven | ||||
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present participle | nervend | ||||
past participle | genervt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich nerve | wir nerven | i | ich nerve | wir nerven |
du nervst | ihr nervt | du nervest | ihr nervet | ||
er nervt | sie nerven | er nerve | sie nerven | ||
preterite | ich nervte | wir nervten | ii | ich nervte1 | wir nervten1 |
du nervtest | ihr nervtet | du nervtest1 | ihr nervtet1 | ||
er nervte | sie nervten | er nervte1 | sie nervten1 | ||
imperative | nerv (du) nerve (du) |
nervt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
- “nerven” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “nerven” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “nerven” in Duden online
- “nerven” in OpenThesaurus.de
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
nerven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
nerven m
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