funke

From Swedish funka, similar slang which is a shortening of funktionera (“to function, to work”). The surface analysis of funke is a shortening of fungere, which is suggested by the alternative form funge.

funke (imperative funk, infinitive at funke, present tense funker, past tense funkede, perfect tense har funket)

1. (slang) to work well; to work out
   • 1993, Kosmorama:

     Den funker bare i kraft af sin fuldkomment gennemsigtige opdeling af rummet.

     It just works really well through its completely transparent division of the room.

   • 2012, Lars Kjædegaard, Den røde labyrint: En Hvid & Belling-krimi, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:

     Vi prøvede. Men hun ... det funkede ikke.

     We tried. But she ... it didn't work out.

• funge

• fungere

• “funke,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

• fonk, fonke

From Old English *funca, from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfunk(ə)/

funke

1. (rare) spark

• English: funk (obsolete)

• “fǒnke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• funk, fonk (eye dialect, apocope)

funke (present tense funkar, past tense funka, past participle funka, passive infinitive funkast, present participle funkande, imperative funke/funk)

1. e-infinitive form of funka (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

funke

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag) present tense of funk