Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tekan
Participle: tekaned
Gerund: tekaning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tekan |
| you | tekan |
| he;she;it | tekans |
| we | tekan |
| you | tekan |
| they | tekan |
Perfect
| I | have tekaned |
| you | have tekaned |
| he;she;it | has tekaned |
| we | have tekaned |
| you | have tekaned |
| they | have tekaned |
Past
| I | tekaned |
| you | tekaned |
| he;she;it | tekaned |
| we | tekaned |
| you | tekaned |
| they | tekaned |
Pluperfect
| I | had tekaned |
| you | had tekaned |
| he;she;it | had tekaned |
| we | had tekaned |
| you | had tekaned |
| they | had tekaned |
Future
| I | will tekan |
| you | will tekan |
| he;she;it | will tekan |
| we | will tekan |
| you | will tekan |
| they | will tekan |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tekaned |
| you | will have tekaned |
| he;she;it | will have tekaned |
| we | will have tekaned |
| you | will have tekaned |
| they | will have tekaned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tekan |
| you | tekan |
| he;she;it | tekan |
| we | tekan |
| you | tekan |
| they | tekan |
Perfect
| I | have tekaned |
| you | have tekaned |
| he;she;it | have tekaned |
| we | have tekaned |
| you | have tekaned |
| they | have tekaned |
Imperfect
| I | tekaned |
| you | tekaned |
| he;she;it | tekaned |
| we | tekaned |
| you | tekaned |
| they | tekaned |
Pluperfect
| I | had tekaned |
| you | had tekaned |
| he;she;it | had tekaned |
| we | had tekaned |
| you | had tekaned |
| they | had tekaned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tekan |
| you | would tekan |
| he;she;it | would tekan |
| we | would tekan |
| you | would tekan |
| they | would tekan |
Perfect
| I | would have tekaned |
| you | would have tekaned |
| he;she;it | would have tekaned |
| we | would have tekaned |
| you | would have tekaned |
| they | would have tekaned |
Imperative
| you | tekan |
| we | Let's tekan |
| you | tekan |
Verbs conjugated like 'tekan'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tekan'
bean,
beman,
dean,
decan,
deman,
devan,
ean,
hean,
kan,
lean,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).
Sample Sentences
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"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!" [1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean (Usenet):]
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We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated [2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:]
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When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully). [2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:]
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It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan. [2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60:]