liken
English
Etymology
From Middle English liknen (“to compare; to be comparable, be equal; to form; to be appropriate”), equivalent to like + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
liken (third-person singular simple present likens, present participle likening, simple past and past participle likened)
- (transitive, followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
- 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
- Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
- That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
liken
- (Internet) to like (on social media)
- Hebben jullie mijn pagina al geliket?
- Have you already liked my page?
Inflection
Conjugation of liken (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | liken | |||
past singular | likete | |||
past participle | geliket | |||
infinitive | liken | |||
gerund | liken n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | like | likete | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | liket | likete | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | liket | likete | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | liket | likete | ||
3rd person singular | liket | likete | ||
plural | liken | liketen | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | like | likete | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | liken | liketen | ||
imperative sing. | like | |||
imperative plur.1 | liket | |||
participles | likend | geliket | ||
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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
liken (third-person singular simple present likt or liket, past tense likte or likete or liked, past participle gelikt or geliket or geliked)
- (Internet) To like (on social media).
- 2012, Claudia Hilker, Erfolgreiche Social-Media-Strategien für die Zukunft: Mehr Profit durch Facebook, Twitter, Xing und Co., Linde Verlag GmbH →ISBN, page 94
- Was Facebook-User liken und warum Der Like-Button hat die Online-Welt wie kein zweites Element revolutioniert.
- What Facebook users like, and why the like button has revolutionised the online world like no other element.
- Was Facebook-User liken und warum Der Like-Button hat die Online-Welt wie kein zweites Element revolutioniert.
- 2012, Tim Sebastian, Facebook Fanpages Plus, mitp Verlags GmbH & Co. KG →ISBN, page 22
- Egal ob Sie etwas schreiben, kommentieren oder liken, tun Sie dies im Namen der Fanpage.
- No matter whether you write something, comment, or like, do this in the name of the fanpage.
- Egal ob Sie etwas schreiben, kommentieren oder liken, tun Sie dies im Namen der Fanpage.
- 2014, Markus Pfeifer, Facebook - Kommunikation und Interaktion mit dem Kunden: Eine Facebook-Marketing Analyse zu den Top 13 österreichischen Biermarken bezugnehmend auf die Interaktion und den Einfluss auf die Facebook Welt, Bachelor + Master Publication →ISBN, page 50
- Es wurde die Möglichkeit untersucht, ob ein Minderjähriger Facebook-User überhaupt die Befugnis hat bei den 13 auserwählten Bier Unternehmen deren Facebook-Seiten zu liken.
- It was checked whether an underage Facebook user actually had the ability to like the Facebook sites of the 13 selected beer companies.
- Es wurde die Möglichkeit untersucht, ob ein Minderjähriger Facebook-User überhaupt die Befugnis hat bei den 13 auserwählten Bier Unternehmen deren Facebook-Seiten zu liken.
- 2014, Wolfgang H. Weinrich, Der liebe Gott kommt nicht voran, unnumbered page
- Bin ich dann einer unter vielen und muss darauf warten, wer meine Follower sind und wer mich liked oder gar linkt?
- Am I then one among many, and must I pay attention to who my followers are and who liked me or even linked me?
- Bin ich dann einer unter vielen und muss darauf warten, wer meine Follower sind und wer mich liked oder gar linkt?
- 2014, Katherine Womser, Wenn Fernsehen alleine nicht genug ist, page 183
- Das war halt so wie man bei Facebook was postet und keiner antwortet und keiner liked das.
- That was like if you posted something on Facebook and no-one answered or liked it.
- Das war halt so wie man bei Facebook was postet und keiner antwortet und keiner liked das.
- 2012, Claudia Hilker, Erfolgreiche Social-Media-Strategien für die Zukunft: Mehr Profit durch Facebook, Twitter, Xing und Co., Linde Verlag GmbH →ISBN, page 94
Conjugation
Duden recommends conjugating the verb as if it were a standard German weak verb with the hypothetical stem lik-.[1] However, irregular conjugations that preserve some or all of the features of English grammar, especially the terminal e, are common. Template:de-conj-weak
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References
- ^ 2013 August 7, Kritsanarat Khunkham, "Heißt es "geliket" oder "geliked" oder "gelikt"?", Die Welt
Middle Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
liken
- Alternative form of geliken
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch līcon, from Proto-Germanic *līkijaną.
Verb
liken
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: lijken
Further reading
- “liken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “liken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Swedish
Noun
liken
- (deprecated template usage) definite singular of like
- (deprecated template usage) definite plural of lik
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