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{{also|Nerven}}
==English==

===Etymology===
From {{suffix|en|nerve|en|id2=inchoative}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈnɜː(ɹ)vən/}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|rare}} To [[innerve]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1944|title=Magazine Antiques|volume=45|page=261|passage={{...}} if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt{{sic}} all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am '''nervened''' to give up.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1964|title=Explorations in Education|volume=1-12|page=93|passage=Grover was a pilot of '''nervened''' skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1987|author=Jane Sillars; Kasia Boddy|title=Original prints: new writing from Scottish women|page=39|passage={{...}} Circling like cats <br>around a possibility that might, <br>'''nervened''', we touch together almost quite.}}

==Dutch==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-nerven.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ɛrvən|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{head|nl|noun form}}

# {{plural of|nl|nerf}}

==German==

===Etymology===
From {{m|de|Nerv|t=nerve}} via the expression {{m|de|auf die Nerven gehen|t=to get on (someone's) nerves}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/ˈnɛʁfən/|[nɛʁfən]|[ˈnɛɐ̯-]|[-fn̩]|aa=standard}}
* {{IPA|de|/ˈnɛʁvən/|aa=less common}}
* {{audio|de|De-nerven.ogg}}
* {{audio|de|De-nerven2.ogg}}
* {{hyph|de|ner|ven}}

===Verb===
{{de-verb}}

# {{lb|de|ambitransitive|informal}} to [[annoy]], to [[irritate]] {{+obj|de|acc<someone>}}
#: {{syn|de|ärgern|stören|belästigen|verärgern|verdrießen|aufregen|vergrätzen<q:informal>|erregen|krank machen|auf die Nerven gehen|belästigen|verstimmen|quälen|plagen|anzipfen|enervieren|irritieren|reizen|fuchsen}}
#: {{uxi|de|Es '''nervt''' mich.|It '''bugs''' me.}}
#: {{uxi|de|Das '''nervt'''.|This/That is '''annoying'''.}}

====Conjugation====
{{de-conj}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:DWDS}}
* {{R:UniLeipzig}}
* {{R:Duden}}
* {{R:OpenThesaurus}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Noun===
{{head|nb|noun form|g=m}}

# {{inflection of|nb|nerve||definite|s}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Noun===
{{head|nn|noun form|g=m}}

# {{inflection of|nn|nerve||definite|s}}

==Swedish==

===Noun===
{{head|sv|noun form}}

# {{noun form of|sv|nerv||def|s}}