fria

See also: Fria and fría

Irish

Alternative forms

• fréithe
• froithi

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠeː/

Pronoun

fria (emphatic friasa)

1. third-person singular feminine of fré

Latin

Verb

friā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of friō

References

• fria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fria (present tense friar, past tense fria, past participle fria, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fria/fri)

1. Alternative form of fri (“to free”)
2. Alternative form of fri (“to propose marriage”)

Anagrams

• fari, fira

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲi.a]

Determiner

frïa (triggers lenition in the masculine/neuter singular, /h/-prothesis in the feminine singular, and eclipsis in the plural)

1. Univerbation of fri +‎ a (“his, her, its, their”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: fri‧a

Adjective

fria

1. feminine singular of frio

Swedish

Etymology 1

Adjective

fria

1. inflection of fri:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Norse frjá, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną.

Verb

fria (present friar, preterite friade, supine friat, imperative fria)

1. to propose; to ask for one's hand in marriage
2. to acquit; to clean someone from suspicions of wrongdoing; to find not guilty

   Synonym: frikänna

3. (refereeing) to not blow the whistle, to let the game play on

Conjugation

Conjugation of fria (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	fria		frias
Supine	friat		friats
Imperative	fria		—
Imper. plural1	frien		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	friar	friade	frias	friades
Ind. plural1	fria	friade	frias	friades
Subjunctive2	frie	friade	fries	friades
	Participles
Present participle	friande
Past participle	friad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

propose

• friare
• frieri

acquit

• befria

Anagrams

• fira