Noun: wraak
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Hij heeft pas jaren later wraak genomen. (He did not exact revenge until years later.)
Nouns inflected like wraak
weerwraak,
spraakwater,
lekentaal,
sneeuw,
saflet,
schuim,
schijt,
witte fosfor,
flauwekul,
besturing,
skitta,
selderij,
atomisme,
walvisvaart,
dag des Heren,
addergebroed,
ontfriezing,
kosmopolitisme,
schapenvlees,
februari, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch wrāke, wraeck, from Old Dutch wrāka, wrāca, from Proto-West Germanic *wrāku, from Proto-Germanic *wrēkō (“persecution, revenge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive, press, urge”).
2. Cognate with English wrack and wreak (“vengeance, revenge”), Low German Wraak (“revenge, vengeance”), German Rache (“revenge”). More at wreak. See: English Nouns '
wrack', German Nouns '
Rache'.
Verbs referencing "wraak"
English Nouns
wreak.
Translations