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See also: Grave, gravé, gravë, and -grave

English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: grāv, IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪv/
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    • Rhymes: -eɪv
  • (accent, also): IPA(key): /ɡɹɑːv/

Etymology 1

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From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

Noun

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A freshly dug grave

grave (countable and uncountable, plural graves)

  2. (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
    Synonyms: plot, lot; see also Thesaurus:grave
    Coordinate terms: burial chamber, sepulchre, vault
  4. (loosely) Any place of interment.
    Hyponyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, vault
  5. (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
  6. (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
  7. (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years."
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  • Sranan Tongo: grebi
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).

Verb

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grave (third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past graved, past participle graved or graven)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
    to grave an image
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
    • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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Etymology 3

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    From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.

    Adjective

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    grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)

    1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. [from 16th c.]
      Synonyms: austere, solemn, sombre; see also Thesaurus:serious
    2. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
      Antonyms: acute, deep, flat, low-pitched
      • 1854, John Weeks Moore, Encyclopedia of Music:
        The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
    3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]
      Synonyms: serious, momentous, important; see also Thesaurus:important
      • 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National‎[4]:
        Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
      • 2017, Vladimir Shlapentokh, A Normal Totalitarian Society, page 80:
        Khrushchev made a grave miscalculation when he failed to appreciate the growing opposition to his power and overestimated the support of his bureaucracy.
    4. (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
      Coordinate term: acute
    5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th–18th c.]
      Synonyms: magisterial, masterful, oracular, sterling
      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 7:
        An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
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    Noun

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    grave (plural graves)

    1. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
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    Etymology 4

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    Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).

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    grave (plural graves)

    1. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
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    Verb

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    grave (third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past and past participle graved)

    1. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.
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    Noun

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    grave (plural graves)

    1. (obsolete) A kilogram.
      • 1899, John Sturgeon Mackay, Arithmetic Theoretical and Practical, page 117:
        At the origin of the metric system the new unit of weight was called the grave, and was equivalent to the kilogram. The denomination grave would in some respects have been preferable to kilogram.

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    Danish

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ɡraːvə/, [ˈɡ̊ʁɑːvə]

    Etymology 1

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    From Italian grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave”).

    Adverb

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    grave

    1. (music) grave (low in pitch, tone etc.)
    2. accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

    Etymology 2

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    From Old Norse grafa (“to dig, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

    Verb

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    grave (imperative grav, infinitive at grave, present tense graver, past tense gravede, perfect tense har gravet)

    1. dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)
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    digging

    Etymology 3

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    See grav (“grave, tomb, pit”).

    Noun

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    grave c

    1. indefinite plural of grav

    Dutch

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    grave

    1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of graven

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    Esperanto

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɡrave/
    • Rhymes: -ave
    • Syllabification: gra‧ve

    Adverb

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    grave

    1. seriously, gravely

    French

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    Inherited from Middle French grave, borrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of grief.

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    grave (plural graves)

    1. serious
    2. solemn
    3. low-pitched
      Antonym: aigu
    4. (phonetics) back
      • 1911, Diran Kélékian, “grave”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[5], Constantinople: Mihran, Quelques mots sur la pronunciation des lettres Turques:
        Quatre de ces voyelles sont graves: a, o, u, œu.
        Four of these are vowels are back [vowels], a, o, u, [and] œu
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    • → Norwegian Bokmål: grave

    Adverb

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    grave

    1. (informal, slang) much; a lot
      Je te kiffe grave !
      I love you like crazy!

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    Verb

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    grave

    1. inflection of graver:
      1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
      2. second-person singular imperative

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin gravis. Doublet of greve.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɡra.ve/
    • Rhymes: -ave
    • Hyphenation: grà‧ve

    Adjective

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    grave m or f by sense (plural gravi, superlative gravissimo)

    1. grave, serious
      un grave problema
      a serious problem
    2. heavy
    3. solemn
    4. (music) low-pitched, low-pitch

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    Latin

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    Adjective

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    grave

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of gravis

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    • "grave", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "grave", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • "grave", in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[6]

    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    From the dative of Old English græf, from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą.

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɡraːv(ə)/, /ˈɡrav(ə)/, /ˈɡraf/

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    grave (plural graves)

    1. grave, burial
    2. tomb, mausoleum
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    Noun

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    grave

    1. alternative form of gravey

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    Noun

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    grave

    1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of greyve

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    Noun

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    grave

    1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of grove

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    Verb

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    grave

    1. alternative form of graven

    Middle French

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    From Old French grave.

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    grave f (plural graves)

    1. gravel

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    Middle High German

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old High German grāfo, grāvo, grāfio, grāvio (“count, local judge”).

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    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈɡraːvə/, /ˈɡraːfə/
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    Noun

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    grāve m

    1. count, local judge

    Declension

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    Declension of grāve (weak masculine)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein dër grāve die grāven
    genitive eines dës grāven dër grāven
    dative eime dëm grāven dën grāven
    accusative einen dën grāven die grāven

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    • “grâve” Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Wilhelm Müller, and Friedrich Zarncke. Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke. Vol. 1. S. Hirzel, 1863.

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

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    grave (imperative grav, present tense graver, passive graves, simple past gravde or grov, past participle gravd, present participle gravende)

    1. to dig
      grave ut ― to excavate

    Etymology 2

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    From French grave (“serious, low-pitched; back”), from Middle French grave, from Old French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”), from *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”) + *-us (forms adjectives).

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    grave m (definite singular graven, indefinite plural graver, definite plural gravene)

    1. only used in accent grave (“grave accent”)

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    Verb

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    grave (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)

    1. alternative form of grava

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    Medieval Latin grava, from Gaulish *grawa, *growa, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā, related to Cornish grow (“gravel”), Breton grouan, and Welsh gro (“gravel”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr-eu-d-.

    Noun

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    grave oblique singular, f (oblique plural graves, nominative singular grave, nominative plural graves)

    1. gravel

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    Portuguese

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy; grave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us.

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    grave m or f (plural graves, comparable, comparative mais grave, superlative o mais grave or gravíssimo)

    2. serious; grave (having possible severe negative consequences)
      Synonyms: sério, severo
      Sofria de uma doença grave.
      He suffered from a serious disease.
    4. (of sound) low-pitched; grave (low in pitch or tone)
      Synonym: baixo
      Antonym: agudo
      O som da tuba é mais grave do que o do trombone.
      The sound of the tuba has a lower pitch than that of the trombone.
    6. grave; serious; sombre; austere; solemn (characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness)
      Synonyms: sério, austero, circunspecto, sisudo, solene
      O programa tinha um tom grave.
      The program had a serious tone.
    8. (physics) that falls down; that doesn’t float
      O balão não é um corpo grave.
      Balloons are not a falling body.
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    grave m (plural graves)

    1. (music) a low-pitched note
    2. (physics) a body that falls down

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    grave

    1. inflection of gravar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from Italian grave.

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    grave

    1. inflection of grav:
      1. genitive/dative feminine singular/plural
      2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

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    grave

    1. grave

    Spanish

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    Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia es

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    Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Old Spanish grave, from Latin gravis. Cf. also the attested Old Spanish form grieve, from Early Medieval Latin grevis, which was more common in other Romance-speaking areas.[1]

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    grave m or f (masculine and feminine plural graves, superlative gravísimo)

    1. serious, grave
      Synonym: serio
      • 2023 August 22, Jamie Gumbrecht, “La FDA aprueba la primera vacuna para proteger a los recién nacidos del virus respiratorio sincitial”, in CNN en Español‎[7]:
        Seis meses después del nacimiento, la vacuna tenía una eficacia del 69% para prevenir la enfermedad grave por RSV y del 51% para prevenir una visita al médico por problemas respiratorios relacionados con el RSV.
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    2. bass (sound)
      Synonym: bajo
      Antonym: agudo
    3. solemn
      Synonym: solemne
    4. (phonetics) paroxytone; stressed in the penultimate syllable
      Synonym: llano
      Coordinate terms: agudo, esdrújulo, sobresdrújulo
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    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    grave

    1. inflection of gravar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “grave”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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    Adjective

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    grave

    1. definite natural masculine singular of grav

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    Etymology

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    From Old Frisian grava, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

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    grave

    1. to dig

    Inflection

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    Strong class 6
    infinitive grave
    3rd singular past groef
    past participle groeven
    infinitive grave
    long infinitive graven
    gerund graven n
    auxiliary hawwe
    indicative present tense past tense
    1st singular graaf groef
    2nd singular graafst groefst
    clitic form graafsto groefsto
    3rd singular graaft groef
    plural grave groeven
    imperative graaf
    participles gravend groeven

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