nerven

nerven

See also: Nerven

English

Etymology

    From nerve + -en.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnɜː(ɹ)vən/

    Verb

    nerven (third-person singular simple present nervens, present participle nervening, simple past and past participle nervened)

    1. (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.

    Cornish

    Etymology

    Adapted borrowing of English nerve + -en.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnɛr.vɛn/

    Noun

    nerven f (plural nervennow)

    1. nerve

    References

    • nerven” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

    Dutch

    Pronunciation

    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛrvən

    Noun

    nerven

    1. plural of nerf

    German

    Etymology

    From Nerv (nerve) via the expression auf die Nerven gehen (to get on (someone's) nerves).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁfən/, [nɛʁfən], [ˈnɛɐ̯-], [-fn̩] (standard)
    • IPA(key): /ˈnɛʁvən/ (less common)
    • Audio:(file)
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
    • Hyphenation: ner‧ven

    Verb

    nerven (weak, third-person singular present nervt, past tense nervte, past participle genervt, auxiliary haben)

    1. (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

    Descendants

    • English: nerve (semantic loan)

    Further reading

    • nerven”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
    • nerven” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
    • nerven” in Duden online
    • nerven” in OpenThesaurus.de

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    nerven m

    1. definite singular of nerve

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Noun

    nerven m

    1. definite singular of nerve

    Swedish

    Noun

    nerven

    1. definite singular of nerv