merken
Dutch
Pronunciation
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrkən
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *marikjan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną.
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: merk
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German merchen, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną (“to mark, notice”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Icelandic merkja.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛʁkŋ̍/, /ˈmɛʁkən/
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Verb
merken (weak, third-person singular present merkt, past tense merkte, past participle gemerkt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to notice (a situation, difference not readily apparent)
- Man merkt das ja kaum. ― You barely notice it.
- Ich bin schwanger aber merke nichts. ― I'm pregnant but I can't feel anything.
- (transitive, reflexive) to memorize, remember, learn
- Ich merkte mir alles. ― I memorized everything.
- to realize
- 1915 October, Franz Kafka, “Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]”, in Die Weißen Blätter […] , volume 2, number 10, Verlag der Weißen Bücher, page 1180:
- Zunächst wollte er ruhig und ungestört aufstehen, sich anziehen und vor allem frühstücken, und dann erst das Weitere überlegen, denn, das merkte er wohl, im Bett würde er mit dem Nachdenken zu keinem vernünftigen Ende kommen.
- To begin with, he wanted to get up calmly and undisturbed, get dressed and, above all, have breakfast, and only then think about everything else, because, as he realized well, in bed he would not come to a sensible conclusion with the thinking.
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
- anmerken
- aufmerken
- bemerken
- bemerkenswert
- Bemerkung
- Mark
- Merkblatt
- Merkmal
- merkwürdig
- Merkzettel
- vermerken
- vormerken
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Verb
merken
- to mark, to put a mark on, to give a mark to
- to watch attentively
- to watch, to pay attention to, to notice
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Limburgish: mèrke
Further reading
- “merken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “merken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic *markijaną.
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Further reading
- “merken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012