roken
See also: Roken, rōken, and röken
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈroːkə(n)/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: ro‧ken
- Rhymes: -oːkən
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch rôken. Equivalent to rook + -en.
Verb
roken
- (intransitive, transitive) to smoke (a tobacco product, another drug, a surrogate)
- We roken een sigaret.
- We are smoking a cigarette.
- Maar ik rook niet.
- But I don't smoke.
- Vroeger werd er in zeemansbuurten veel opium gerookt.
- People used to smoke a lot of opium in the sailors' districts.
- (intransitive) to smoke, to produce smoke
- De motor rookte enorm.
- The engine produced a great amount of smoke.
Inflection
Inflection of roken (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | roken | |||
past singular | rookte | |||
past participle | gerookt | |||
infinitive | roken | |||
gerund | roken n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | rook | rookte | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | rookt | rookte | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | rookt | rookte | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | rookt | rookte | ||
3rd person singular | rookt | rookte | ||
plural | roken | rookten | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | roke | rookte | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | roken | rookten | ||
imperative sing. | rook | |||
imperative plur.1 | rookt | |||
participles | rokend | gerookt | ||
1) Archaic. |
Descendants
- Afrikaans: rook
- Negerhollands: rook
- → Indonesian: rokok
- → Petjo: rokok
- → Malay: rokok
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
roken
- plural past indicative and subjunctive of ruiken
- plural past indicative and subjunctive of rieken
Anagrams
- koren, krone
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From rooc + -en.
Verb
rôken
- to smoke, to give off smoke
- to smoke, to preserve by treating with smoke
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: roken
- Limburgish: rouke
Further reading
- “roken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “roken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II