zocken
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Yiddish צחקען (tskhoken, “to gamble”),[1] from Hebrew שיחק / שִׂחֵק (sikhék, “to play”) or צָחַק (tsakhák, “to laugh”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtsɔkən/, [ˈtsɔk(ə)n], [ˈtsɔkŋ̍]
- Hyphenation: zo‧cken; pre-1996: zok‧ken
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)
Verb
[edit]zocken (weak, third-person singular present zockt, past tense zockte, past participle gezockt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to gamble
- (video games, transitive or intransitive) to play video games (sometimes extended to card games)
- Synonyms: gamen, (Northern Germany) daddeln
- Ich habe damals ziemlich intensiv WoW gezockt.
- I was playing a lot of WoW back then.
- 2016 January 30, Eva Przybyla, “Es lebe der Videoabend!”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN, page 47:
- Wer dann nach dem Film doch keine Lust mehr hat, mit seiner Begleitung über den Film zu streiten, trinkt halt weiter. Oder kickert im geräumigen Keller, raucht oder zockt an der Retro-Konsole. Nett ist das.
- Whoever doesn't feel like arguing about the movie with their friends after watching it can just keep drinking instead. Or play foosball in the room basement, smoke, or play games using a retro console.
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | zocken | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | zockend | ||||
| past participle | gezockt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich zocke | wir zocken | i | ich zocke | wir zocken |
| du zockst | ihr zockt | du zockest | ihr zocket | ||
| er zockt | sie zocken | er zocke | sie zocken | ||
| preterite | ich zockte | wir zockten | ii | ich zockte1 | wir zockten1 |
| du zocktest | ihr zocktet | du zocktest1 | ihr zocktet1 | ||
| er zockte | sie zockten | er zockte1 | sie zockten1 | ||
| imperative | zock (du) zocke (du) |
zockt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Duden, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, ed. 1989
Further reading
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