række
Danish
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]The noun derived from the verb or a borrowing from Middle Low German recke, reck, which has also been borrowed into German Reck.
Noun
[edit]række c (singular definite rækken, plural indefinite rækker)
- row, line, rank; things arranged spatially
- (mathematics) series
- series; succession; sequence; things or events arranged in order of time
- (chess) rank
- (taxonomy) phylum
Inflection
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | række | rækken | rækker | rækkerne |
| genitive | rækkes | rækkens | rækkers | rækkernes |
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse rekja (“to unroll”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną, cognate with German recken (“to stretch”). The Danish verb is also influenced by the unrelated verb Middle Low German rēken (“to reach, suffice”), German reichen, from Proto-Germanic *raikijaną (“to reach”).
Verb
[edit]række (imperative ræk, infinitive at række, present tense rækker, past tense rakte, perfect tense har rakt)