# naken
## English
### Alternative forms

* nakyn (Scotland)

### Etymology

From Middle English nakenen, nacnen, equivalent to nake +‎ -en.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eɪkən

### Verb

naken (third-person singular simple present nakens, present participle nakening, simple past and past participle nakened)
* (transitive, UK, dialectal) To make naked; nake.

### Anagrams

* Kenan, Kenna

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch nâken, from Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaːkə(n)/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

naken
* (intransitive) to draw near, to approach, to be imminent
    het nakende onweer ― the approaching thunderstorm
    2025 March 10, Japke-d. Bouma, “Willen alle ‘personal coaches’ en ‘verandermanagers’ hun mond houden over Zelensky? Dank alvast”, in NRC:Op LinkedIn analyseren trainers, coaches en allerlei andere ‘experts’ het optreden van president Zelensky op 28 februari in de Oval Office. [...] „Alsof de nakende Derde Wereldoorlog een netwerkborrel is, en een kernoorlog een kans voor persoonlijke groei.”On LinkedIn, trainers, coaches and various other sorts of ‘experts’ analyze president Zelenskyy's performance on February 28 in the Oval Office. [...] “As if the imminent Third World War is a networking event, and nuclear war an opportunity for personal growth.”

#### Derived terms

* genaken

### Anagrams

* kanen

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

### Verb

nâken
* to approach, to near

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: naken

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* nake, nakyn, nakkin, nakyne

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English nacian, from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaːkən/, /ˈnakən/

### Verb

naken
* To remove clothes or make naked; to nake.
** c. 1380s [c. 524], Geoffrey, transl. Chaucer, Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, book 4, metre 7, translation of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, line 70; republished in The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Oxford University Press, 1912, page 192:O nyce men, why nake ye youre bakkes?(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* To remove; to expose or make visible.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Derived terms

* nakenen

#### Descendants

* English: nake
* Scots: nake

#### References

* “nāken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

### Adjective

naken (neuter singular nakent, definite singular and plural nakne, comparative naknere, indefinite superlative naknest, definite superlative nakneste)
* nude, naked, bare

#### Derived terms

* nakenhet
* nakenstrand

### References

* “naken” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²naːçən/, [²nɐ̞ːçən], [²nɐ̞ːc͡çən]
* (newer or regional) IPA: /²naːkən/, [²nɐ̞ːkən]
* Rhymes: -çən
* Hyphenation: na‧ken

### Adjective

naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)
* naked, nude, bare

#### Declension

$^1$: Unofficial after 2012. $^2$: Non-standard or dialectal. $^3$: Pre-1901 or dialectal.

#### Derived terms

* nakenstrand

### References

* “naken” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

### Verb

nāken
* to approach, to near, to come closer

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: nâken
** Dutch: naken

#### Further reading

* “nāken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)
* naked
    Har man inga kläder på sig så är man nakenIf you have no clothes on, you are naked
    nakenråttanaked mole rat [naked-rat]
    Den nakna sanningenThe naked truth
** nude

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* halvnaken
* nakenbad
* nakenbada
* nakenchock
* nakendans
* nakenhet
* nakenhund
* nakeninspelning
* nakenkultur
* nakenscen
* nakenstaty
* nakenstrand

### References

* naken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* naken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Fula Ordboken

### Anagrams

* nakne