bære
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Danish bæræ, from Old Norse bera, from Proto-Germanic *beraną, cognate with Swedish bära, English bear, German gebären. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to bear, carry”), which is also the source of Latin ferō, Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō), Sanskrit भरति (bhárati).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bɛːrə/, [ˈb̥ɛːɐ], [ˈb̥æːɐ]
- Homophones: bæger, bærer
Verb[edit]
bære (past tense bar, past participle båret, common gender attributive båren, definite or plural attributive bårne)
- to carry (to transport by lifting)
- to carry (to be transmitted; to travel)
- to bear (to be equipped with something)
- to bear (to put up with something)
- to bear (to produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops)
Inflection[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse bera, from Proto-Germanic *beraną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).
Verb[edit]
bære (imperative bær, present tense bærer, passive bæres, simple past bar, past participle båret, present participle bærende)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “bære” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
bære (present tense bær, past tense bar, past participle bore, passive infinitive bærast, present participle bærande, imperative bær)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by bera
- Danish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- Danish terms derived from Old Danish
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish terms with homophones
- Danish lemmas
- Danish verbs
- Danish class 4 strong verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål irregular verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-1938 forms