gråt

See also: Grat, GRAT, grat, grât, and grät

Elfdalian

Verb

gråt

1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative of gråta

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• grat (Föhr-Amrum)
• grot (Halligen)
• groot (Heligoland)
• grut (Mooring)
• gurt (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian grāt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”). Cognates include West Frisian grut.

Adjective

gråt

1. (Goesharde) big, great, large

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gråt

1. inflection of gråte:
   1. imperative
   2. simple past

Noun

gråt m (definite singular gråten, indefinite plural gråter, definite plural gråtene)

1. crying

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡroːt/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse grátr.

Noun

gråt m (definite singular gråten, uncountable)

1. crying

   Dei høyrde gråt frå rommet.

   They heard crying from the room.

Etymology 2

Verb

gråt

1. imperative of gråta

References

• “gråt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse grátr. Compare Danish gråd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡroːt/

• Audio:

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Verb

gråt

1. imperative of gråta

Noun

gråt c

1. crying, weeping
   1. tears (when more idiomatic)
      • 1994, Uno Svenningsson, “Under ytan [Beneath the Surface]”, in Uno‎^[1]:

        Under ytan finns stora och små. Under ytan finns det skratt och gråt. Det finns mycket där som händer som vi inte kan förstå, men vi hittar alltid svaren där i botten av oss själva.

        Beneath the surface, there are big and small. Beneath the surface, there is laughter and tears [crying]. There is a lot there that happens that we cannot understand, but we always find the answers, there at the bottom of ourselves.

Declension

Declension of gråt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gråt	gråts
	definite	gråten	gråtens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• gråt och tandagnisslan (“weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth”)

Related terms

• gråta (“cry”)

References

• “gråt”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “gråt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• tråg