dringen

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch dringen, from Old Dutch *thringan, from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdrɪŋə(n)/ Hyphenation: drin‧gen Rhymes: -ɪŋən === Verb === dringen (intransitive) to press, push (into a tight space, a crowd etc) (intransitive) to insist (intransitive) to force entry (intransitive) to be short in supply (of time, etc) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German dringen, from Old High German dringan. Akin to drängen and Drang. Cognate with dialectal English thring and, more distantly, with English throng. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdʁɪŋən/ Hyphenation: dring‧en Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩ === Verb === dringen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present dringt, past tense drang, past participle gedrungen, past subjunctive dränge, auxiliary haben or sein) (intransitive) to insist; to press [auxiliary haben] auf etwas dringen ― to press for something / to insist on something (intransitive) to ooze; to seep [auxiliary sein] in etwas dringen ― to seep into something (intransitive) to penetrate, to force one’s way [auxiliary sein] durch etwas dringen ― to penetrate something (literally, “to force one’s way into something”) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “dringen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “dringen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “dringen” in Duden online “dringen” in OpenThesaurus.de == Low German == === Etymology === From Middle Low German dringen, from Old Saxon thringan. Cognate with English thring. === Verb === dringen (third-person singular simple present dringt, past tense drung, past participle drungen, auxiliary verb wesen or hebben) (intransitive, auxiliary hebben) to insist; to press op wat dringen ― to press for something, insist on something (intransitive, auxiliary: wesen) to ooze; to seep in wat dringen ― to seep into something (intransitive, auxiliary: wesen) to force one’s way dörch wat dringen ― to penetrate something (literally, “to force one’s way into something”) ==== Conjugation ==== == Middle Dutch == === Etymology === From Old Dutch *thringan. === Verb === dringen to press, to push to force one's way to pressure, to bother to extort ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Dutch: dringen Afrikaans: dring Limburgish: dringe === Further reading === “dringhen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000 Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “dringen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I