drunk
part of speech
verb (past participle of drink: drunk); adjective (drunk)
meaning for a pupil
1) Drunk is the past participle of «drink»: «I have drunk my milk». tree →
2) Drunk describes a person who has had too much alcohol and cannot think, speak or move properly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In grammar lessons pupils learn drink, drank, drunk: «yesterday I drank», «I have drunk». In health and safety lessons alcohol is not for children; drunk people may be unsteady and act strangely; never get into a car with a drunk driver and tell a trusted adult if you feel unsafe. Phrases: have drunk, get drunk, drunk driving.
examples
- Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. (Torah DEU.29.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink in every such vessel that may be drunk shall be unclean. (Torah LEV.11.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.' (Torah DEU.32.42, JPS 1917) tree →
- We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price. (Writings LAM.5.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt. (Prophets ISA.37.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- I have drunk all my juice. tree →
- Has the cat drunk its milk? tree →
- We had drunk the whole bottle of water by lunch. tree →
- The man was drunk and fell over. tree →
- Drunk driving is very dangerous and against the law. tree →
- Alcohol can make people drunk. tree →
- Sometimes even greater people than the peasants get drunk. tree →
note
Grammar trap: drink – drank – drunk. Say «I drank it yesterday» (not «I drunk it») and «I have drunk it» (not «I have drank it»). Alcohol is harmful to children; it is illegal to sell it to them.
In the corpora
- I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
- I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
- We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
- Drunk means so much alcohol that balance, speech and judgement stop working properly; drunk people can fall, fight and act unpredictably.
- Chemicals must never be poured into drinks bottles; people have drunk them by mistake from juice and water bottles.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drunk» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.