sank
English
Pronunciation
Verb
sank
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German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aŋk
Verb
sank
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular preterite of sinken.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular preterite of sinken.
Middle Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon sang, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz. Related to singen (“to sing”).
Cognate with Old High German sanc (German Gesang (“singing”)), Old Norse sǫngr. Modern cognates include English song and Swedish sång.
Pronunciation
Noun
sank m (genitive sanges)
- the act of singing
- a chant
- a song, especially one sung during work
- the sound of a bell, bell ringing
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
sank
- simple past of synke
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of sanke
Swedish
Etymology
Old Swedish sank, related to sjunka (“to sink, intransitive, to go down”) and sänka (“to sink, transitive, to make something go down”).
Adjective
sank (comparative sankare, superlative sankast)
Declension
Inflection of sank | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | sank | sankare | sankast |
Neuter singular | sankt | sankare | sankast |
Plural | sanka | sankare | sankast |
Masculine plural3 | sanke | sankare | sankast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | sanke | sankare | sankaste |
All | sanka | sankare | sankaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
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