decken

See also: Decken

German

Etymology

From Middle High German decken, from Old High German decchen, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan. Equivalent to Dach +‎ -en.

Cognate with West Frisian dekke, Dutch dekken, English thatch, Danish tække, Swedish täcka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛkən/, [-kən], [-kŋ̩]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
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Verb

decken (weak, third-person singular present deckt, past tense deckte, past participle gedeckt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to cover (a roof, with a blanket, etc.)
    Tischlein deck dich ― Wishing-Table (literally, “Little table, cover yourself”)
  2. (figuratively) to cover (e.g. a demand, a loss; but not “to provide news coverage”)
    • 2010, Der Spiegel‎[1], number 25/2010, page 129:
      Zudem schrumpfen in Deutschland die Jahrgänge. Das Angebot an Arbeitnehmern, auch im Top-Bereich, wird bald nicht mehr reichen, um den Bedarf zu decken.
      In addition the age groups are shrinking in Germany. The supply of workers, also in the top region, will soon be no longer sufficient to cover the demand.
    • 2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, “Autoreifen aus Löwenzahn - eine ökologische Alternative?”, in Deutsche Welle‎[2] (article), retrieved 1 July 2022:
      Mit dieser Pflanze, Taraxacum koksaghyz, deckte die damalige Sowjetunion bis 1941 ein Drittel ihres Gummibedarfs.
      2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, Could rubber from dandelions make tires more sustainable?, in Deutsche Welle [3] (article), retrieved 1 July 2022:
      By 1941, the Russian dandelion, Taraxacum koksaghyz, supplied 30% of the USSR's rubber.
  3. (figuratively) to cover (a female animal)
  4. to lay or set (the table)
  5. (soccer) to mark
  6. (reflexive) to be congruent, to coincide
  7. (chess) to protect, to guard

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “decken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German)
  • “decken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “decken” in Duden online
  • “decken” in OpenThesaurus.de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German decken, from Old High German thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan. Cognate with German decken, Dutch dekken, English thatch, Icelandic þekja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdæken/, [ˈdækən]

Verb

decken (third-person singular present deckt, past participle gedeckt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive) to cover

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive decken
participle gedeckt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular decken —
2nd singular decks deck
3rd singular deckt —
1st plural decken —
2nd plural deckt deckt
3rd plural decken —

(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

    From Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.

    Verb

    decken

    1. to roof, to build/repair a roof
    2. to cover
    3. to protect by covering
    4. to erase, to make invisible
    5. to hide
    6. to keep secret

    Inflection

    Conjugation of decken (weak)
    infinitive base form decken
    genitive deckens
    dative deckene
    indicative subjunctive
    present past present past
    1st person singular decke — decke —
    2nd person singular decs, deckes — decs, deckes —
    3rd person singular dect, decket — decke —
    1st person plural decken — decken —
    2nd person plural dect, decket — dect, decket —
    3rd person plural decken — decken —
    imperative
    singular dec, decke
    plural dect, decket
    present past
    participle deckende —

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Dutch: dekken
    • Limburgish: dèkke

    Further reading