rücken

See also: rucken, Rucken, and Rücken

German

Etymology

From Middle High German rücken, Old High German rucchen. Cognate with Old Norse rykkja, Old English roccian, English rock.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁʏkən/, [ˈʁʏkŋ̍]
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  • Homophone: Rücken

Verb

rücken (weak, third-person singular present rückt, past tense rückte, past participle gerückt, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive) to move, to push
  2. (intransitive) to move over

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “rücken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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