drängen

See also: drangen and Drängen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German drengen, from Proto-West Germanic *þrangwijan. Akin to the verb dringen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁɛŋən/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: drän‧gen

Verb

drängen (weak, third-person singular present drängt, past tense drängte, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to press, to push
    • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 35:
      Immer mehr Leute drängten in den kleinen Raum und zwängten sich zwischen Tischen und Stühlen durch.
      More and more people pushed into the small room and squeezed themselves through between the tables and chairs.

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • drängen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • drängen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • drängen” in Duden online
  • drängen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German drengen, from Proto-Germanic *þrangwijaną. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʀæŋen/, [ˈdʀæŋən]

Verb

drängen (third-person singular present drängt, past participle gedrängt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to push

Conjugation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Swedish

Noun

drängen

  1. definite singular of dräng

Anagrams

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