raak

See also: rääk

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑːk/

Verb

raak (present raak, present participle raakende, past participle geraak)

1. to become
2. to get
3. to grow

Central Dusun

Etymology

Borrowed from English rack.

Noun

raak

1. rack

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːk/

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• Hyphenation: raak
• Rhymes: -aːk

Etymology 1

From raken.

Adjective

raak (comparative raker, superlative raakst)

1. hitting; to the point

   Dat was een rake opmerking. — “That remark was right on the mark.”

2. on target; scoring; counting

   De bal lag net op de doellijn, dus kan het niet raak zijn geweest.

   “The ball lay exactly on the goal line, so it can’t have been a goal.”

3. (colloquial, used impersonally) pregnant

   Een kleine misselijkheid hoeft nog niet te zeggen dat het echt raak is.

   “A little nausea doesn’t have to mean that you’re really pregnant.”

Declension

Declension of raak
uninflected	raak
inflected	rake
comparative	raker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		raak	raker	het raakst het raakste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	rake	rakere	raakste
	n. sing.	raak	raker	raakste
	plural	rake	rakere	raakste
definite		rake	rakere	raakste
partitive		raaks	rakers	—

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch rāke, from Old Dutch *raka, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *rakō; compare riek.

Noun

raak f (plural raken, diminutive raakje n)

1. (dialectal) rake

   Synonym: hark

Derived terms

• raken (“to rake”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

raak

1. inflection of raken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English raken, from Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *raką.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːk/
• IPA^(key): [təraːx] (at least once)

Verb

raak

1. to rake

Yurok

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːk/

Noun

raak

1. creek