Kilo Lingo

wake

/weɪk/

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Translation

To stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping.

Word origin

From Old English wacian, meaning to be awake.

Origin
Old English
Root
wacian

Grammar

Verb typeirregular (wake, wakes, woke, woken)

Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.

Examples

six .

"Wake" means to stop sleeping and open your eyes.

.

"Wakes" is the form used with he, she, or it.

barked.

"Woke" is the past form of "wake".

To wake is to stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping. The past form is "woke".

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This word is part of lesson 7.