bakken

bakken

To bake.

In this sentence, 'bak' refers to the action of baking food, specifically a cake, using heat in an oven.

Ik bak een taart in de oven.

I bake a cake in the oven.

Here, 'bakken' is used to describe frying or cooking food in a pan with oil, highlighting its culinary context.

Je kunt aardappels bakken in de pan.

You can fry potatoes in the pan.

In this expression, 'bakken' is used idiomatically to mean 'to mess up', diverging from its typical culinary context to a figurative usage in language.

Hij heeft het grondig verpest, dat kun je wel bakken noemen.

He completely messed it up; you could call that 'baking it'.