stuk

From Dutch stuk.

• IPA^(key): /stœk/

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stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie)

1. A piece, part.

• IPA^(key): /stʏk/

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• Hyphenation: stuk
• Rhymes: -ʏk

From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick.

stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n)

1. a piece, part, share (of a whole)

   Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken.

   I’m cutting this pear in four pieces.

   Synonym: deel

2. a theatrical piece, play, skit
3. a document (especially official)
4. (board games) a playing piece
5. (chess) a piece, one of the playing pieces in chess usually excluding pawns
6. (colloquial) a hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender)

stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n)

1. a piece, one (countable), an item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English)

   Zijn de peren vers? Geef me daar dan vier stuks van.

   Are the pears fresh? Then give me four of them.

• wisselstuk

• Negerhollands: stuk, stek, stik, steki, stiki, teki
• Skepi Creole Dutch: steki (from the diminutive)

By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (“to pieces”).

stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst)

1. broken, rendered useless; out of order

   Synonym: kapot

• The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”).

Declension of stuk
uninflected	stuk
inflected	stukke
comparative	stukker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		stuk	stukker	het stukst het stukste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	stukke	stukkere	stukste
	n. sing.	stuk	stukker	stukste
	plural	stukke	stukkere	stukste
definite		stukke	stukkere	stukste
partitive		stuks	stukkers	—

• kust

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stukъ.

• IPA^(key): /stuk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: stuk
• Homophone: stóg

stuk m inan

1. knock

   Synonym: stukot

stuk

1. (colloquial) knock!

   Synonym: puk

• stuk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stuk in Polish dictionaries at PWN