harken

== English == === Etymology === See hearken === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːk(ə)n/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹkən/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kən Hyphenation: hark‧en === Verb === harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened) (ambitransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard. (intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era). ==== Usage notes ==== Where sense 2 is concerned, the bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Sranan Tongo: arkiAukan: aliki>? Saramaccan: háika === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “harken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995, page 497 “Hark/Hearken”, Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November, 2008) === Anagrams === hanker == Dutch == === Etymology === From early modern Dutch harcken, hercken, from hark (“rake”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɑrkən === Verb === harken to rake, to use a rake on ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== hark ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: hark → Papiamentu: harka → Sranan Tongo: ar'ari, har'hari → Caribbean Javanese: ari-ari == German == === Etymology === By surface analysis, Harke +‎ -en. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhaʁkn̩/ === Verb === harken (weak, third-person singular present harkt, past tense harkte, past participle geharkt, auxiliary haben) (regional, Northern Germany) to rake ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “harken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “harken” in OpenThesaurus.de