drink
/drɪŋk/
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Translation
To take water or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it.
Word origin
From Old English drincan, a word shared across the old Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- drincan
Grammar
Verb typeirregular (drink, drinks, drank, drunk)
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
meal.
"Drink" means to take in a liquid.
tea .
"Drinks" is the form used with he, she, or it.
milk.
"Drank" is the past form of "drink".
"Drink" means to take a liquid like water, tea, or milk into your mouth and swallow it. The past form is "drank", and "drunk" is used after "have".
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