beeje
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- bieje (southern Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German biogan.
Pronunciation
Verb
beeje (third-person singular present büch or beecht, past tense boch, past participle jeboge or geboge)
- (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian, transitive) to bend
- (same regions, reflexive) to be bent
- Et jitt Saache, die sich loße beeje, on Saache, die kapottbrääche.
- There are things that can be bent, and things that break in two.
Usage notes
- The past tense is restricted to Ripuarian and rather rare. Otherwise the forms büch; jeboge are Ripuarian, whereas beecht; geboge are Moselle Franconian.
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- Central Franconian transitive verbs
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