harken
See also: Harken
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kən
Verb
harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)
- Alternative spelling of hearken ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
- 1833: Alfred Tennyson
- Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken. But there was no unusual sound...
- 1942, William Faulkner, The Bear
- ... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:
- 1833: Alfred Tennyson
- (figuratively, US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
- 1994, David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition, page 4
- The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college
- 2005, Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, page 48
- Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.
- 1994, David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition, page 4
Usage notes
The bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.
References
- “harken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995, p. 497
- “Hark/Hearken”, Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November, 2008)
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From early modern Dutch harcken, hercken, from hark (“rake”).
Pronunciation
Verb
harken
- to rake, to use the rake on
Inflection
| Conjugation of harken (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | harken | |||
| past singular | harkte | |||
| past participle | geharkt | |||
| infinitive | harken | |||
| gerund | harken n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | hark | harkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | harkt | harkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | harkt | harkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | harkt | harkte | ||
| 3rd person singular | harkt | harkte | ||
| plural | harken | harkten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | harke | harkte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | harken | harkten | ||
| imperative sing. | hark | |||
| imperative plur.1 | harkt | |||
| participles | harkend | geharkt | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||