Sentences with German verb ticken

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Present

  • Die Uhr tickt . 
    English The clock is ticking.
  • Die Uhr tickt leise. 
    English The clock ticks quietly.
  • Du tickst nicht ganz richtig. 
    English You are not quite right.
  • Mein Wecker tickt viel zu laut. 
    English My alarm clock ticks too loudly.
  • Ich verstehe nicht, wie er tickt . 
    English I can't understand his psychology.
  • Der Mensch lebt und vergeht, während die kosmische Uhr nur einmal tickt . 
    English Man lives and passes away, while the cosmic clock ticks only once.
  • Maria weiß wie Tom tickt . 
    English Maria knows how Tom ticks.
  • Das ist eben die Art, wie die Justiz tickt . 
    English This is just the way the justice system works.
  • Das monotone Geräusch der Räder des Eisenbahnwagens tickt wie eine Uhr. 
    English The monotone sound of the wheels of the railway carriage ticks like a clock.

Imperfect

  • Die Uhr tickte vernehmlich. 
    English The clock ticked audibly.

Present Subj.

  • Dieser kleine Kläffer hat ein so schräges Bellen, dass man wirklich meint, er ticke nicht richtig. 
    English This little barker has such a strange bark that you really think he is not quite right.

Imperf. Subj.

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Indicative

Examples sentences for realis mood Active for ticken


  • Die Uhr tickt . 
    English The clock is ticking.
  • Die Uhr tickt leise. 
    English The clock ticks quietly.
  • Du tickst nicht ganz richtig. 
    English You are not quite right.
  • Mein Wecker tickt viel zu laut. 
    English My alarm clock ticks too loudly.
  • Ich verstehe nicht, wie er tickt . 
    English I can't understand his psychology.
  • Ich begreife einfach nicht, wie Kinder ticken . 
    English I just don't understand how children work.
  • Der Mensch lebt und vergeht, während die kosmische Uhr nur einmal tickt . 
    English Man lives and passes away, while the cosmic clock ticks only once.
  • Maria weiß wie Tom tickt . 
    English Maria knows how Tom ticks.
  • Das ist eben die Art, wie die Justiz tickt . 
    English This is just the way the justice system works.
  • Das monotone Geräusch der Räder des Eisenbahnwagens tickt wie eine Uhr. 
    English The monotone sound of the wheels of the railway carriage ticks like a clock.
  • Die Uhr tickte vernehmlich. 
    English The clock ticked audibly.
  • Männer ticken anders als Frauen. 
    English Men think differently than women.
  • Die Deutschen ticken anders als alle anderen. 
    English The Germans think differently than everyone else.

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Subjunctive

Usage for conjunctive mood Active for ticken


  • Dieser kleine Kläffer hat ein so schräges Bellen, dass man wirklich meint, er ticke nicht richtig. 
    English This little barker has such a strange bark that you really think he is not quite right.

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Conditional (würde)

Conditional (würde)

Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German ticken


German ticken
English tick, tap, click, work, act, think, ticking, touch
Russian тикать, думать, быть устроенным, прикасаться, работать, трогать, действовать, прикоснуться
Spanish hacer tictac, actuar, marcar, pensar, pulsar, tictac, tocar
French faire tic-tac, tictaquer, agir, frôler, penser, taper, tic-tac
Turkish tiktak etmek, dokunmak, düşünmek, hafifçe dokunmak, hareket etmek, tıkırdamak
Portuguese fazer tique-taque, fazer tiquetaque, agir, pensar, tique-tique, tocar levemente
Italian ticchettare, fare tic tac, agire, pensare, sfiorare, toccare
Romanian acționa, atinge, ciupesc, gândi, ticăit
Hungarian ketyeg, (meg)érint (ujjheggyel), felfog, gondolkodik és cselekszik, kapizsgál, megért, perceg, cselekedni
Polish tykać, dotykać, działać, myśleć, stukać
Greek χτυπώ, αγγίζω, ακουμπώ, δρω, κρότος, σκέφτομαι
Dutch tikken, begrijpen, snappen, denken, handelen
Czech tikat, zatikat, jednat, klepat, myslet, tikot, ťukat
Swedish ticka, tänka, ≈ bete sig, agera, nuddra
Danish dikke, prikke, berøre, handle, tikke, tænke
Japanese カチカチする, 時を刻む, 考える, 行動する, 触れる, 軽く触れる
Catalan fer tic-tac, actuar, pensar, tic-tac, tocar lleugerament
Finnish tikittää, ajattelutapa, hipaista, toimintatapa
Norwegian tikke, berøre, handle, tenke, tippe
Basque jokatu, pentsatu, tiktaka, ukitu
Serbian dodirnuti, funkcionisati, kretati se, kucati
Macedonian делување, допир, отчукување, размислување
Slovenian delovati, dotikati, razmišljati, tiktakati
Slowakisch konať, myslieť, tikotať, ťuknúť
Bosnian dodirnuti, kucati, postupati, razmišljati
Croatian dodirnuti, funkcionirati, kretati se, kucati, otkucavati
Ukrainian доторкнутися, думати, діяти, тикти
Bulgarian действам, докосвам, мисля, тиктак
Belorussian дотык, паводзіць сябе, падумаць, цоканне
Hebrewלחשוב، לטפוף، לפעול، תיק-טק
Arabicتك، تكتك، دقات، لمس، يتصرف، يفكر
Persianتیک‌تیک کردن، عمل کردن، فکر کردن، لمس کردن
Urduسوچنا، عمل کرنا، ٹک ٹک کرنا، چھونا، ہلکا سا چھونا

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* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 169481, 169481, 320307

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 1690499, 7864288, 1062148, 1183285, 1925586, 3255606, 1733257, 3547449, 11290770, 8047547

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 169481, 169481, 169481

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: ticken

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