No. 4,184 in Dutch
bakken
To bake.
In a sentence
Ik bak een taart in de oven.
I bake a cake in the oven.
In this sentence, 'bak' refers to the action of baking food, specifically a cake, using heat in an oven.
Je kunt aardappels bakken in de pan.
You can fry potatoes in the pan.
Here, 'bakken' is used to describe frying or cooking food in a pan with oil, highlighting its culinary context.
Hij heeft het grondig verpest, dat kun je wel bakken noemen.
He completely messed it up; you could call that 'baking it'.
In this expression, 'bakken' is used idiomatically to mean 'to mess up', diverging from its typical culinary context to a figurative usage in language.
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