dronken
Dutch
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈdrɔŋ.kə(n)/
- Audio - (file) 
- Hyphenation: dron‧ken
- Rhymes: -ɔŋkən
Etymology 1
    
From Middle Dutch dronken, from Old Dutch drunkan, from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz.
Adjective
    
dronken (comparative dronkener, superlative dronkenst)
Inflection
    
| Inflection of dronken | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | dronken | |||
| inflected | dronken | |||
| comparative | dronkener | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | dronken | dronkener | het dronkenst het dronkenste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | 
| n. sing. | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| plural | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| definite | dronken | dronkener | dronkenste | |
| partitive | dronkens | dronkeners | — | |
Derived terms
    
Descendants
    
Etymology 2
    
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
    
dronken
- inflection of drinken:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
 
Anagrams
    
Middle English
    
    Verb
    
dronken
- past participle of drynken
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
 Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.- And when he had drunk all the wine
 He would not speak a word other than Latin
 
- And when he had drunk all the wine
 
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
 
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
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