nerven

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English

Etymology

From nerve +‎ -en.

Verb

nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)

  1. (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

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  • Rhymes: -ɛrvən

Noun

nerven

  1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of nerf

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁfən/, [nɛʁfən], [ˈnɛɐ̯-], [-fn̩] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "standard" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁvən/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "less common" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
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Verb

Template:de-verb-weak

  1. to bug; to annoy

Conjugation

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Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

nerven m

  1. definite singular of nerve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nerven m

  1. definite singular of nerve
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