stocken
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See also: Stöcken
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to stock + -en (plural ending).
Noun
[edit]stocken
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]stocken (weak, third-person singular present stockt, past tense stockte, past participle gestockt, auxiliary haben)
- to stop, to attain stagnation or cease to proceed
- Synonym: stillstehen
- to stagnate, to have no progress
- 1912, Franz Kafka, Das Urteil, in: Arkadia. Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst, Kurt Wolff (1913), page 53:
- Nun betrieb er ein Geschäft in Petersburg, das anfangs sich sehr gut angelassen hatte, seit langem aber schon zu stocken schien, wie der Freund bei seinen immer seltener werdenden Besuchen klagte.
- Now he ran a business in Petersburg, which had promised very well initially but seemed to have been stagnating already for a long time, as the friend complained during his visits, which became more and more rare.
- 1912, Franz Kafka, Das Urteil, in: Arkadia. Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst, Kurt Wolff (1913), page 53:
- (cooking) to become consolidated as to have little fluidity
- (preservation of goods) to take damp damage
- (forestry jargon) to stand, to be rowed
- (stonemasonry) to work by hammer
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | stocken | ||||
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present participle | stockend | ||||
past participle | gestockt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich stocke | wir stocken | i | ich stocke | wir stocken |
du stockst | ihr stockt | du stockest | ihr stocket | ||
er stockt | sie stocken | er stocke | sie stocken | ||
preterite | ich stockte | wir stockten | ii | ich stockte1 | wir stockten1 |
du stocktest | ihr stocktet | du stocktest1 | ihr stocktet1 | ||
er stockte | sie stockten | er stockte1 | sie stockten1 | ||
imperative | stock (du) stocke (du) |
stockt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “stocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “stocken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “stocken” in Duden online
- “stocken” in OpenThesaurus.de
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]stocken
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