leken

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈleː.kə(n)/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːkən
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken

Noun

leken

  1. Plural form of leek

Verb

leken

  1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of lijken

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

le- (“down; fully”) +‎ ken (“smear”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛkɛn]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Verb

leken

  1. (transitive, of machinery) to grease, to lubricate
  2. (transitive, of hair) to smarm (to flatten the hair, etc. with cream or grease)
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to slap someone on the face

Conjugation
conjugation of leken
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal		 3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal		 3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. lekenek lekensz leken lekenünk lekentek lekennek
Def. lekenem lekened lekeni lekenjük lekenitek lekenik
2nd-p. o. lekenlek ―
Past Indef. lekentem lekentél lekent lekentünk lekentetek lekentek
Def. lekentem lekented lekente lekentük lekentétek lekenték
2nd-p. o. lekentelek ―
Condi­tional
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. lekennék lekennél lekenne lekennénk lekennétek lekennének
Def. lekenném lekennéd lekenné lekennénk
(or lekennők)		 lekennétek lekennék
2nd-p. o. lekennélek ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood		 Pre­sent Indef. lekenjek lekenj or
lekenjél		 lekenjen lekenjünk lekenjetek lekenjenek
Def. lekenjem lekend or
lekenjed		 lekenje lekenjük lekenjétek lekenjék
2nd-p. o. lekenjelek ―
Infinitive lekenni lekennem lekenned lekennie lekennünk lekennetek lekenniük
Other nonfinite
verb forms		 Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
lekenés lekenő lekent lekenendő lekenve lekenhet

Derived terms
  • lekenés

Further reading
  • leken in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lekan, from Proto-Germanic *lekaną.

Verb

lēken

  1. to leak, to be leaky
  2. to leak away, to flow away (of a liquid)

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: lekken
  • Limburgish: laeke

Further reading
  • “leken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “leken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

leken m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of leke

leken m

  1. definite singular of lek

Swedish

Noun

leken

  1. definite singular of lek.

Anagrams
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