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See also: Nerven
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)
- (transitive, rare) To innerve.
- 1944, Magazine Antiques, volume 45, page 261:
- […] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt[sic] all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up.
- 1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93:
- Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.
- 1987, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39:
- […] Circling like cats
around a possibility that might,
nervened, we touch together almost quite.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
nerven
German
Etymology
From Nerv (“nerve”) via the expression auf die Nerven gehen (“to get on (someone's) nerves”).
Pronunciation
Verb
nerven (weak, third-person singular present nervt, past tense nervte, past participle genervt, auxiliary haben)
- (ambitransitive, informal) to annoy, to irritate [with accusative ‘someone’]
- Synonyms: ärgern, stören, belästigen, verärgern, verdrießen, aufregen, (informal) vergrätzen, erregen, krank machen, auf die Nerven gehen, belästigen, verstimmen, quälen, plagen, anzipfen, enervieren, irritieren, reizen, fuchsen
- Es nervt mich. ― It bugs me.
- Das nervt. ― This/That is annoying.
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Descendants
- → English: nerve (semantic loan)
Further reading
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
nerven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
nerven m
Swedish
Noun
nerven
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