Polyglot Dictionary

absenken

/ˈapˌzɛŋkn̩/

verb C1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present
senkt ab
past
senkte ab
perfect
hat abgesenkt

Meaning

  1. to lower

    Built from ab (off, away) + senken (to lower).

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Made of

  • ab off, away
  • senken to lower

Similar words

senken

Senken is the general word for lowering — a price, your voice, your head; absenken is more technical, a gradual lowering of something like a water table or a threshold.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

arriar

arriar is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "to lower."

Portuguese

rebaixar

rebaixar is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "to lower."

Practice

1 What does absenken mean?

2 Fill the gap: Man ___ den Wasserspiegel ab.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches absenken?

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