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Wecken

Wecken

See also: wecken

German

Noun

Wecken m (genitive Weckens, plural Wecken)

  1. loaf, roll
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Synonyms
  • Weckerl
  • Weck
  • Wecke
  • Weggen
  • Weckchen

Etymology 2

From wecken.

Noun

Wecken n (genitive Weckens, no plural)

  1. gerund of wecken (the act of waking)
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Etymology 3

Noun

Wecken

  1. plural of Wecke

wecken

wecken

See also: Wecken

German

Verb

wecken (third-person singular simple present weckt, past tense weckte, past participle geweckt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to wake, to wake up
    • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 16:
      Erst die helle Sonne, die mein Zimmer in eine Fülle von Licht tauchte, weckte mich.
      Only the bright sun, which bathed by room in an abundance of light, woke me up.

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Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon wekkian, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną. Compare English watch, Dutch wekken. Also related to waken.

Verb

wecken (past weck, past participle weckt, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. (transitive) To wake, to wake up.

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