Plukkes

Plukkes is the present passive form of the verb plukke in Norwegian and Danish, used to indicate that something is being picked, harvested, or plucked. The verb plukke comes from the North Germanic language family and has cognates in Swedish plocka (present passive plockas) and Danish plukke, all sharing a sense of gathering by hand.

In modern Norwegian and Danish, plukkes functions as a passive voice construction in the present tense, for example, "Epler plukkes i hagen" (Norwegian) or "Æblerne plukkes i haven" (Danish). The past passive is formed with an auxiliary such as ble/blev plus the past participle: "Eplene ble plukket" (Norwegian) and "Æblerne blev plukket" (Danish). The active counterpart is plukker in both languages, with the infinitive form plukke.

Usage notes: plukkes is commonly used in agricultural contexts, horticulture, food preparation, and everyday language to describe the act of picking or gathering produce. It can also be used figuratively to mean selecting items from a group, though more common verbs for such contexts include velge or utvelge.

Examples: The apples are picked in the orchard every autumn. In Norwegian: Eplene plukkes i hagen hver høst. In Danish: Æblerne plukkes i haven om efteråret.

See also: plukke, plukker, plukning.