drage

See also: dragé

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• drahn, drohn (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʀaːɣə/

Verb

drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)

1. (most dialects of Ripuarian) to carry; to bear; to wear

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Danish

drage

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dreki, from Middle Low German drake, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”)

Noun

drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)

1. dragon (legendary creature)
2. drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
3. kite
4. hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
5. dragon keelboat
6. Viking longship

Inflection

Declension of drage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	dragen	drager	dragerne
genitive	drages	dragens	dragers	dragernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“pull, draw, drag”).

Verb

drage (imperative drag, present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget, dragen, dragne)

1. draw
2. attract, allure
3. go, march, travel

Etymology 3

From French dragée.

Alternative forms

• dragé

Noun

drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)

1. dragée

Inflection

Declension of drage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	drageen	drageer	drageerne
genitive	drages	drageens	drageers	drageernes

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Dutch

Verb

drage

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dragen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drake

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• draga
• dra

Etymology

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²drɑːɡɑ/

Verb

drage (imperative dra, present tense dreg, simple past drog, past participle drege, present participle dragande)

1. to pull; drag
2. to leave; depart; go

   å drage på ferie

   to go on holiday

Derived terms

• dragkamp
• oppdra

References

• “drage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

drage

1. inflection of drag:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of draga

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.

Verb

drage

1. to carry

Inflection

Strong class 6
infinitive	drage
3rd singular past	droech
past participle	dragen
infinitive	drage
long infinitive	dragen
gerund	dragen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	draach	droech
2nd singular	draachst	droechst
3rd singular	draacht	droech
plural	drage	droegen
imperative	draach
participles	dragend	dragen

Further reading

• “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011