kauche
See also: käüche and Käüche
Limburgish
Alternative forms
- koke (Maastrichtian, Valkenburg)
- koake (Southeast Limburgish)
- kaoke (widespread variant)
Etymology
From Old High German kohhōn, from Proto-West Germanic *kokōn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.xə/
- Hyphenation: kau‧che
- Rhymes: -au̯xə
Verb
kauche (third-person singular present kaucht, past participle gekaucht, auxiliary verb haane)
- (Eupen, intransitive, of a person) to cook, to prepare food (chiefly hot food for lunch or supper)
- (Eupen) to boil
- (intransitive, of a liquid) (to reach the boiling point)
- (transitive) (to heat a liquid until it boils)
- (transitive) (to prepare something in such a liquid)
Conjugation
| Regular (Eupen dialect) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | kauche | ||
| participle | gekaucht | ||
| auxiliary | haane | ||
| present indicative |
past indicative |
imperative | |
| 1st singular | kauch | kauchde | — |
| 2nd singular | kauchts | kauchdes | kauch |
| 3rd singular | kaucht | kauchde | — |
| 1st plural | kauche | kauchde | — |
| 2nd plural | kaucht | kauchde | kaucht |
| 3rd plural | kauche | kauchde | — |
Derived terms
- Kauch (“cook”)