morgen

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English

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Etymology

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From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.

Noun

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morgen (plural morgen or morgens)

  1. (chiefly historical) A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. [from 17th c.]
    • 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 68:
      ‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz. Compare Norwegian Bokmål morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, and German Morgen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔr.ən/, /ˈmɒːən/, [ˈmɒ̝ːɒ̝n], [ˈmɔːɔn]

Noun

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morgen c

  1. morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch morgen, from Old Dutch morgan, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (to blink, twinkle).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: mor‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɣən

Adverb

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morgen

  1. tomorrow
    Ik zie je morgen op school.I'll see you at school tomorrow.
    We gaan morgen naar de film.We're going to the movies tomorrow.
    Morgen is het haar verjaardag.Tomorrow is her birthday.

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: môre
  • Jersey Dutch: mârxje, mârxe, mârge
  • Negerhollands: morg, moruk, morgen
    • Virgin Islands Creole: morek (dated)
  • Petjo: morhen

Noun

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morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

  1. morning
    Synonym: ochtend

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Interjection

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morgen

  1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German morgene, from Old High German morgane, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin. Cognate with English morrow.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɡən/, [ˈmɔʁ-], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-ɡən], [-ɡŋ̍]
  • IPA(key): /mɔrŋ/, /mɔrjən/ (colloquial variants)
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
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Adverb

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morgen

  1. tomorrow
    morgen frühtomorrow morning
    morgen Abendtomorrow evening
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-3 -2 -1 today +1 +2 +3
vor drei Tagen,
vorvorgestern,
ehevorgestern
vorgestern gestern heute morgen übermorgen
in drei Tagen,
überübermorgen

Further reading

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  • morgen” in Duden online
  • morgen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

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Noun

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morgen

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Danish morgen, from Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (to blink, twinkle). Compare Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, German Morgen.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈmoːrˌən/, [ˈmoːˌɳ̍]

Noun

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morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)

  1. morning (the part of the day when the night ends and the day begins, dawn)

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin.

Cognate with Old Frisian morgen, Old Saxon morgan, Old Dutch morgan, Old High German morgan, Old Norse morgunn. Compare also (from the alternative form *murginaz) Old Norse myrginn and Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 (maurgins).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

Noun

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morgen m

  1. morning
    on morgen
    in the morning
  2. tomorrow

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