rocken
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English rochen, equivalent to rocke, roche + -en.
Adjective
editrocken (comparative more rocken, superlative most rocken)
- (now archaic) Consisting or made of rock or rocky material.
- c. 1870, William Barnes, “The Girt Wold House o' Mossy Stwone”, in Poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect:
- […] Don't talk ov housen all o' brick, / Wi' rocken walls nine inches thick, […]
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Verb
editrocken (weak, third-person singular present rockt, past tense rockte, past participle gerockt, auxiliary haben)
- to get done, to accomplish
- Synonym: fertigbekommen
Conjugation
editinfinitive | rocken | ||||
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present participle | rockend | ||||
past participle | gerockt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich rocke | wir rocken | i | ich rocke | wir rocken |
du rockst | ihr rockt | du rockest | ihr rocket | ||
er rockt | sie rocken | er rocke | sie rocken | ||
preterite | ich rockte | wir rockten | ii | ich rockte1 | wir rockten1 |
du rocktest | ihr rocktet | du rocktest1 | ihr rocktet1 | ||
er rockte | sie rockten | er rockte1 | sie rockten1 | ||
imperative | rock (du) rocke (du) |
rockt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
editMòcheno
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German rocke, from Old High German rocko, from Proto-West Germanic *roggō, from Proto-Germanic *ruggô (“rye”). Cognate with archaic German Rocken.
Noun
editrocken m
References
edit- “rocken” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Swedish
editNoun
editrocken
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