dringen

From Middle Dutch dringen, from Old Dutch *thringan, from Proto-West Germanic *þringwan, from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɪŋə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: drin‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɪŋən

dringen

1. (intransitive) to press, push (into a tight space, a crowd etc)
2. (intransitive) to insist
3. (intransitive) to force entry
4. (intransitive) to be short in supply (of time, etc)

   de tijd dringt

   time is short

From Middle High German dringen, from Old High German dringan. Akin to drängen and Drang. Cognate with dialectal English thring and, more distantly, with English throng.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʁɪŋən/
• Hyphenation: dring‧en

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩

dringen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present dringt, past tense drang, past participle gedrungen, past subjunctive dränge, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive) to insist; to press [auxiliary haben]

   auf etwas dringen ― to press for something / to insist on something

2. (intransitive) to ooze; to seep [auxiliary sein]

   in etwas dringen ― to seep into something

3. (intransitive) to penetrate, to force one’s way [auxiliary sein]

   durch etwas dringen ― to penetrate something (literally, “to force one’s way into something”)

• “dringen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “dringen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “dringen” in Duden online
• “dringen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Middle Low German dringen, from Old Saxon thringan. Cognate with English thring.

dringen (third-person singular simple present dringt, past tense drung, past participle drungen, auxiliary verb wesen or hebben)

1. (intransitive, auxiliary hebben) to insist; to press

   op wat dringen ― to press for something, insist on something

2. (intransitive, auxiliary: wesen) to ooze; to seep

   in wat dringen ― to seep into something

3. (intransitive, auxiliary: wesen) to force one’s way

   dörch wat dringen ― to penetrate something (literally, “to force one’s way into something”)

From Old Dutch *thringan.

dringen

1. to press, to push
2. to force one's way
3. to pressure, to bother
4. to extort

• Dutch: dringen
  • Afrikaans: dring
• Limburgish: dringe

• “dringhen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “dringen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I