# drinken
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

### Verb

drinken
* (nonstandard, archaic) past participle of drink
    Has he eaten or drinken anything today?

#### Usage notes

The usual past participle of the verb to drink is drunk, which is found in the overwhelming majority of cases. The form "drinken" is an overregularization based on forms such as eat/eaten and beat/beaten. It is more common in spoken language than in written form.

### Anagrams

* kendrin

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some! Particularly: “Any stød? Also, how is this phonetically distinct from drengen?”

### Noun

drinken c
* definite singular of drink

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdriŋkə(n)/, /ˈdrɪŋkə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: drin‧ken
* Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drinken, from Old Dutch drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

#### Verb

drinken
* (transitive, intransitive) to drink, consume a liquid
* (intransitive) to be an alcoholic

##### Derived terms

* aandrinken
* afdrinken
* bedrinken
* comadrinken
* dooddrinken
* doordrinken
* drinkbaar
* drinkebroer
* drinker
* drinkfontein
* drinkgelag
* drinkgeld
* drinkrietje
* drinkwater
* indrinken
* koffiedrinken
* leegdrinken
* nadrinken
* omdrinken
* opdrinken
* uitdrinken
* verdrinken
* wegdrinken

##### Related terms

* drank
* drink
* dronk
* dronken

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: drink
* Berbice Creole Dutch: dronggi
* Negerhollands: drink, dring, drin
* → Aukan: dingii

### Etymology 2

Gerund of the verb drinken.

#### Noun

drinken n (uncountable)
* drink, beverage
    Synonym: drank

## Low German
### Etymology

From Middle Low German drinken.

### Verb

drinken (third-person singular simple present drinkt, past tense drunk, past participle drunken, auxiliary verb hebben) drinken (third-person singular simple present drinkt, past tense drünk, past participle drunken, auxiliary verb hewwen)
* to drink

#### Related terms

* Drinkel
* drunken
* bedrunken
* Gedränk

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.

### Verb

drinken
* to drink

#### Descendants

* Dutch: drinken
** Afrikaans: drink
** Berbice Creole Dutch: dronggi
** Negerhollands: drink, dring, drin
** → Aukan: dingii
* Limburgish: drinke

### Further reading

* “drinken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drinken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* drynken

### Etymology

From Old English drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

### Verb

drinken
* to drink

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) drinken, drinke | (to) drinken, drinke |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | drinke | drank |
| 2nd-person singular | drinkest | drunke, drank |
| 3rd-person singular | drinketh | drank |
| subjunctive singular | drinke | drunke$^1$ |
| imperative singular | drinke | — |
| plural$^2$ | drinken, drinke | drunken, drunke |
| imperative plural | drinketh, drinke | — |
| participles | drinkynge, drinkende | drunken, drunke, ydrunken, ydrunke |
$^1$Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Descendants

* English: drink (see there for further descendants)
* Scots: drink
* Yola: drink

#### References

* “drinken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### See also

* wyn

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

From Old Saxon drinkan (“to drink”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪŋkən/

### Verb

drinken
* to drink

#### Descendants

* Low German: drinken

## Swedish
### Noun

drinken
* definite singular of drink