# picken

picken is a German verb meaning “peck”. Forms: pickt, pickte, hat gepickt.

## Forms

- Present (er/sie/es): pickt
- Simple past: pickte
- Perfect: hat gepickt

## In other languages

- Русский: клевать

## Verb

1. to peck (of a bird)
   - Der Vogel hat schon wieder an die Fensterscheibe gepickt. — The bird pecked at the window pane yet again.

## Verb

1. to pick (to grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails)
   - Mit viel Mühe pickte er die letzte Olive aus dem Glas. — With much effort he picked the last olive out of the jar.

## Verb

1. _Austria · Bavaria · transitive_ to glue, to stick [with auf (+ accusative) ‘onto’]
2. _Austria · Bavaria · intransitive_ to adhere, to stick [with auf (+ dative) ‘to’]

## Expressions

- picken auf + Akk. — to glue, to stick
- picken auf + Dat. — to adhere, to stick

## Examples

- Das Huhn pickt Tom. — The chicken is pecking at Tom.
- Der Scharfschütze pickte sich ein Opfer nach dem anderen heraus. — The sniper picked off his victims one by one.

## Conjugation

### Infinitiv & Partizip

- Partizip II: gepickt
- Hilfsverb: haben

## Related words

- Synonym: kleben

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