winnen
Meaning
- (intransitive,transitive) to win, to triumph, to be victorious (in)
- (transitive) to acquire
- (transitive) to extract, to refine, to harvest (from base materials such as ore or crops)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
win‧nen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋɪ.nə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch winnen, from Old Dutch winnan, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”).
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Sentences
Nederlanders zijn goede schaatsers en ze winnen vaak Olympische medailles in deze discipline .
The Dutch are good skaters and they often win Olympic medals in this discipline.
