meina

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Faroese

Verb

meina (third person singular past indicative meinaði, third person plural past indicative meinað, supine meinað)

  1. to damage, to hurt
  2. to prevent, to avoid

Conjugation

Conjugation of meina (group v-30)
infinitive meina
supine meinað
participle (a6)1 meinandi meinaður
present past
first singular meini meinaði
second singular meinar meinaði
third singular meinar meinaði
plural meina meinaðu
imperative
singular meina!
plural meinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Verb

meina

  1. to mean, to hold, to claim
    • eg meini tað (with stress on meini)
      ah well

Conjugation

Conjugation of meina (group v-29-2)
infinitive meina
supine meinað/
meint
participle (a5/
a39)1
meinandi meintur
present past
first singular meini meinti
second singular meinar/
meinir
meinti
third singular meinar/
meinir
meinti
plural meina meintu
imperative
singular meina/
mein
!
plural meinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Gothic

Romanization

meina

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

meina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative meinti, supine meint)

  1. to think, be of a certain opinion
  2. to mean
  3. (emphatically) to really mean, to not be joking

Conjugation

Verb

meina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative meinaði, supine meinað)

  1. to prohibit or prevent (something, someone from doing something)

Conjugation


Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse meina, from Middle Low German menen, meinen.

Pronunciation

Verb

meina (present tense meiner, past tense meinte, past participle meint, passive infinitive meinast, present participle meinande, imperative mein)

  1. to mean (convey meaning)
    Kva meiner dei med dette?
    What do they mean by this?
  2. think (to be of the opinion)
    Eg veit ikkje kva eg skal meina om dette.
    I don't know what to think about this.

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