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PRONUNCIATION OF HOLK

holk  [həʊk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOLK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Holk is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb holk in English.

WHAT DOES HOLK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Holk

Holk is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Nijkerk, and lies about 7 km northeast of Amersfoort.

Definition of holk in the English dictionary

The definition of holk in the dictionary is to dig something out or up. Other definition of holk is to dig.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HOLK

PRESENT

Present
I holk
you holk
he/she/it holks
we holk
you holk
they holk
Present continuous
I am holking
you are holking
he/she/it is holking
we are holking
you are holking
they are holking
Present perfect
I have holked
you have holked
he/she/it has holked
we have holked
you have holked
they have holked
Present perfect continuous
I have been holking
you have been holking
he/she/it has been holking
we have been holking
you have been holking
they have been holking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I holked
you holked
he/she/it holked
we holked
you holked
they holked
Past continuous
I was holking
you were holking
he/she/it was holking
we were holking
you were holking
they were holking
Past perfect
I had holked
you had holked
he/she/it had holked
we had holked
you had holked
they had holked
Past perfect continuous
I had been holking
you had been holking
he/she/it had been holking
we had been holking
you had been holking
they had been holking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will holk
you will holk
he/she/it will holk
we will holk
you will holk
they will holk
Future continuous
I will be holking
you will be holking
he/she/it will be holking
we will be holking
you will be holking
they will be holking
Future perfect
I will have holked
you will have holked
he/she/it will have holked
we will have holked
you will have holked
they will have holked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been holking
you will have been holking
he/she/it will have been holking
we will have been holking
you will have been holking
they will have been holking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would holk
you would holk
he/she/it would holk
we would holk
you would holk
they would holk
Conditional continuous
I would be holking
you would be holking
he/she/it would be holking
we would be holking
you would be holking
they would be holking
Conditional perfect
I would have holk
you would have holk
he/she/it would have holk
we would have holk
you would have holk
they would have holk
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been holking
you would have been holking
he/she/it would have been holking
we would have been holking
you would have been holking
they would have been holking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you holk
we let´s holk
you holk
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to holk
Past participle
holked
Present Participle
holking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOLK


bespoke
bɪˈspəʊk
broke
brəʊk
choke
tʃəʊk
coke
kəʊk
folk
fəʊk
hon.
həʊk
joke
dʒəʊk
oak
əʊk
oke
əʊk
poke
pəʊk
Polk
pəʊk
roque
rəʊk
smoke
sməʊk
soak
səʊk
Soc.
səʊk
spoke
spəʊk
stoke
stəʊk
stroke
strəʊk
toque
təʊk
woke
wəʊk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOLK

holier
holier-than-thou
holies
holiest
holily
holiness
Holinshed
holism
holist
holistic
holistically
Holkar State
Holkham Hall
holla
holland
hollandaise
hollandaise sauce

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOLK

country folk
egg yolk
fisherfolk
gentlefolk
Herrenvolk
hillfolk
kinfolk
kinsfolk
little folk
menfolk
merfolk
Norfolk
seafolk
Suffolk
townsfolk
travelling folk
volk
womenfolk
workfolk
yolk

Synonyms and antonyms of holk in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «holk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOLK

Find out the translation of holk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of holk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «holk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

holk
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

holk
570 millions of speakers

English

holk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

HOLK
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

holk
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

холке
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

holk
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

holk
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Holk
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Holk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Holk
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

holk
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

holk
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Holk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

holk
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

holk
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हॉल्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Holk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Holk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

holk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

холці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

holk
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

holk
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

holk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Holk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

holk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of holk

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOLK»

The term «holk» is regularly used and occupies the 66.873 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOLK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «holk» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «holk» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about holk

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOLK»

Discover the use of holk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to holk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ring of Fire
Heinrich Holk was one of the major military commanders of the Habsburg forces now stationed in Bohemia. He was the worst type of condottiere in the Thirty Years War—a breed of men who were none too savory to begin with. A one-eyed  ...
Eric Flint, 2004
2
Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German ...
Holk's father, at the kitchen table reading a copy of the German Criminal Investigation Paper, waits for his son to return home. The senior Holk, also a policeman, stands for stalwart traditional morals. Like the wife in The Street, the senior ...
Christiane Schönfeld, 2000
3
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set ...
a cage – this image, which can evoke both homeliness and entrapment, introduces the scenes in the Holk flat on both days. On the first day, the narrative is initiated by Mother Holk looking up from her newspaper and musing about all the ...
Tim Bergfelder, Sue Harris, Sarah Street, 2007
4
Computing and Combinatorics: 17th Annual International ...
computational problem of evaluating Z(G) on any k-regular input graph G. If we restrict G to be any k-regular planar graph, then we use the notation Pl-Holk(a, b) for this problem. It is known that Holk(a, b) and Pl-Holk(a, b) are tractable under ...
Bin Fu, Ding-Zhu Du, 2011
5
Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s
Her refusal to be drawn in by his overture leads to her last resort, an abortion whose tragic outcome precludes her return to normalcy even as it offers Holk a final chance to prove his devotion. Holk's promise to guard Mrs. Haviland's reputation ...
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, 2013
6
Wind Time, Wolf Time
Among them was Heinrich Holk, a Dane who had fought against Wallenstein at Stralsund. Holk understood Wallenstein's penchant for efficiency, for cutting the waste that forever plagued the military. Holk went so far as to order restrictions on  ...
Brian Deming, 2004
7
Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi ...
(The doors play an important diegetic and symbolic role in the story; they serve as a symbolic barrier between a contained life of anti- materialist values and an uncontained world of indulgence and decen- tering on which Holk must "close the ...
Linda Schulte-Sasse, 1996
8
The Grill the Best Left Hand In Mount Misery
The closest Holk and I ever got to getting into a fight (in Yonkers) was with each other. One night we were on the last bus from Yonkers to Mount Vernon when I confessed to Holk that I was in love with Dona. When I said I love Dona Holk hit me ...
Ronald Lee Fleming, 2011
9
Women in German Yearbook
Else's appraisal of her lover Holk also symbolizes a Weimar in flux. As Else looks at a picture of Holk and compares it to one of her criminal lover, two ways of life are being contraposed. While one (law and order) seems to win out over the ...
Women in German Yearbook, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Patricia Herminghouse, 1997
10
Between National Fantasies and Regional Realities: The ...
It is fitting, therefore, to see Holk at the mercy of the forces of Macht- politik.10 As he fails to leave the court behind, Holk ultimately becomes an object of manipulation - much like his native Schleswig - when he chooses Ebba, a Swedish ...
Arne Koch, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOLK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term holk is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stabler: Atmore was 'tough' opponent
I told him that I noted Arthur Holk was his insurance agent. I asked him if he knew Arthur's brother Floyd Holk, who was our State Farm Agent in ... «Atmore Advance, Jul 15»
2
Real estate transactions
Fannie Mae (aka Federal National Mortgage Association) to Alan Holk, 300 E. 3rd St. Unit 809, Little Rock, L809, 300 Third HPR, $195,000. «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
3
SBRMC is title sponsor for Aug. 6-8 Jennifer Moore Rodeo in Foley
Tickets are sold in advance at Summerdale Western Store on Highway 59 in Summerdale and Frances Holk-Jones State Farm Insurance at ... «Mulletwrapper, Jul 15»
4
Spring All-Area team revealed
Honorable mention: Sophie Bolich, Plymouth; Brittany Jaeger, Kiel; Mary Albert, Plymouth; Alyssa Sommerfeld, Sheboygan Falls; Rachel Holk, ... «The Sheboygan Press, Jul 15»
5
Gibbs was talented local auctioneer
Back in the 1950s, before Floyd Holk became the State Farm agent here, there was a man named Ray Zwiffel who owned that business. «Atmore Advance, Jun 15»
6
CALENDRIER du 29 juin au 5 juillet 2015
... policy; meets with Mr Søren Pape Poulsen, leader of the Danish Conservative People's Party; meets with Mr Peder Holk, CEO Novozymes. «EU News, Jun 15»
7
Great Britain post world record mixed cox four time to reach Para …
... with The Netherlands' Alexander van Holk in third, and the order remained the same until the finish to send the trio through to the penultimate ... «Insidethegames.biz, Jun 15»
8
Ricketts: Danish company's interest in Nebraska expansion cooled …
... and federal elected officials,” Novozymes Chief Executive Peder Holk Nielsen said in a statement released to The World-Herald on Monday. «Omaha World-Herald, Jun 15»
9
Oil price fall and limits on use of crops hits biofuels industry
There are now six cellulosic ethanol plants operating around the world, says Peder Holk Nielsen, chief executive of Novozymes, a Danish ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
10
State notebook: Speedy Chier aims for more
Sheboygan Lutheran senior Rachel Holk narrowly missed scoring a point for the Crusaders on Friday, finishing ninth in the Division 3 high ... «The Sheboygan Press, Jun 15»

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