weken

Meaning

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) to soften
2. (reflexive, transitive) to soak

Noun

plural of week

week

• Noun
• Adj
• Verb
• Verb

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wijken

• Verb
• Noun

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Concepts

soak

steep

weeks

sodden

liquor

water

🚰

macerate

soaking

Synonyms

bevochtigen

natmaken

nat wуrden

Translations

أسابيع

remull

rendiment amb segó

setmanes

eintauchen

Wochen

Durchnässung

εμβάπτιση

εμποτισμός

διαβροχή

εβδομάδες

imbiber

imprégner

tremper

semaines

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʋeː.kə(n)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: wêken

Inherited from Old Dutch: *wēken

In summary

From Middle Dutch wêken, from Old Dutch *wēken, from Proto-West Germanic *waikwijan, from Proto-Germanic *waikwijaną.

Sentences

Drie weken later voelde hij zich al veel beter .

Three weeks later, he was feeling much better.

Europa hervormt zich in de komende weken .

In the coming weeks, the new European order will come into being.

Al een paar weken wordt die wijk door inbraken geteisterd .

For a few weeks, that neighborhood has been plagued by burglaries.

Ze hebben twee weken in een jeep doorgebracht in de savanne in Botswana .

They spent two weeks in a jeep in the savannah in Botswana.