taken

See also: tåken

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (to take; grasp; touch). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin.

Morphologically take + -n.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪkən/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪkən
  • Hyphenation: tak‧en

Adjective

taken (not comparable)

  1. Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
    He was very taken with the girl, I hear.
  2. (informal) In a serious romantic relationship.
    I can't ask her out, she's taken.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

taken

  1. past participle of take
    • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute [] , page 26:
      No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief []

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aːkən
  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːkə(n)/

Etymology 1

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *takan, from Proto-West Germanic *takan (to take; grasp, touch), from Proto-Germanic *takaną (to touch, grasp; take).

Verb

taken

  1. (archaic, dialectal) to take, to grasp
  2. (archaic, dialectal) to touch
Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

taken

  1. plural of taak

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *takan, from Proto-West Germanic *takan (to take; grasp, touch), from Proto-Germanic *takaną (to touch, grasp; take).

Verb

tāken

  1. to take, to grab
  2. to get, to achieve

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Limburgish: take

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From late Old English tacan, from Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (to touch, grasp).

Alternative forms

Verb

taken (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tok, past participle Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

  1. to take
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 33–34:
      And made forward erly for to ryse / To take our wey, ther as I yow devyse.
      And made agreement that we'd early rise / To take the road, as I will to you apprise.
Conjugation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
Descendants

References

Alternative forms

Verb

taken

  1. present indicative/subjunctive plural of taken (to take)

Alternative forms

Verb

taken

  1. past participle of taken (to take)

Noun

taken (plural takenes)

  1. (Northern, early) Alternative form of token

Verb

taken (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takende, takynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taked)

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of toknen

Swedish

Noun

taken

  1. definite plural of tak

Anagrams

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