zuigen
Meaning
- suck
- vacuum, hoover
- (intransitive) suckle, nurse
- pester
- (colloquial) to be bad, to suck
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈzœy̯.ɣə(n)/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch sugen, from Old Dutch sūgan, from Proto-West Germanic *sūgan, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą. The meaning "be bad" is a semantic loan from English suck.
Notes
Sign in to write sticky notes
Start learning Dutch with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "zuigen" and many other words and sentences in Dutch.