zocken

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish צחקען (ts(kh)oken, to gamble)[1], from Hebrew שיחק \ שִׂחֵק (sikhék, to play) or צָחַק (tsakhák, to laugh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtsɔkən/, [ˈtsɔk(ə)n], [ˈtsɔkŋ̍]
  • Hyphenation: zo‧cken; pre-1996: zok‧ken
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Verb

zocken (third-person singular simple present zockt, past tense zockte, past participle gezockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to gamble
  2. to play video games

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Duden, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, ed. 1989

Further reading

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