tre

See also: tré, trè, trẻ, trę, and tré-

Albanian

Albanian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tretë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *treje, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate to Latin trēs (“three”) and Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾɛ/

Numeral

tre

1. three

Related terms

• tri

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Breton

Adverb

tre

1. very

   Mat-tre!

   Very good!

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Danish

Danish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

Etymology

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl (þrijoʀ), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)

Numeral

tre

1. three

Further reading

• “tre” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tre” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French très.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tre]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tre

Adverb

tre

1. very

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto tre, French très.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tre/

Adverb

tre

1. very

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Italian

Italian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : terzo     Multiplier : triplo     Fractional : terzo

Etymology

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tre/, [t̪r̺e]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: tré

Numeral

tre

1. three

Noun

tre m (uncountable)

1. three

Related terms

• tre Marie
• tre per due
• tre unità
• trecentesco
• trecento, Trecento
• tredicenne
• tredicesima
• tredici
• tremila
• trenta
• tri-
• trivio

 

See also

Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette
otto	nove	dieci	fante	donna, regina	re	jolly, joker, matta

• Appendix:Italian numbers

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• tree, treo, trew, trewe, treou, trow, trowe

Etymology

From Old English trēo, in turn from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trøː/
• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

tre (plural tres or treen)

1. A tree or a plant that resembles one.

Derived terms

• appeltre
• axiltre
• extre
• figge tre
• hawe tre
• peretre
• plumtre
• thornetre
• treen

Descendants

• English: tree
• Scots: tree

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tres. Compare Italian tre.

Numeral

tre

1. three

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Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

Numeral

tre

1. three

Derived terms

Terms derived from tre (numeral)

• tredel
• tredeling
• tredimensjonal

• trefase
• trehjuls
• trekant

• tremenning
• treveis
• treåring

Related terms

• tredje

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tré. The plurals trær and trærne are derived from Danish træ.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

Noun

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre or trær, definite plural trea or trærne)

1. tree
2. wood

   Dette bordet er lagd av tre.

   This table is made of wood.

Derived terms

Terms derived from tre (tree, wood)

• almetre
• balltre
• bartre
• eiketre
• epletre
• frukttre
• juletre
• kakaotre
• kirsebærtre
• lønnetre
• løvtre
• nedfallstre

• oliventre
• palmetre
• penger vokser ikke på trær
• stamtre
• trearbeid
• treblåseinstrument
• treblåser
• treboks
• trebåt
• tregrense
• trehest
• trehus

• trekors
• trekrone
• trekull
• treløs
• tremasse
• treskjærer
• tresko
• tresleiv
• tresnitt
• trestamme
• trestykke
• treverk

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German treden

Verb

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past trådte, past participle trådt, present participle tredende)

1. to step (in, out etc.), to tread

   (military) Tre av! - Dismissed!

   (legislation etc.) tre i kraft - come into effect, come into force

Derived terms

• framtre, fremtre
• fratre
• opptre
• overtre

Etymology 4

From tråd

Alternative forms

• træ

Verb

tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past tredde, past participle tredd)

1. to thread

   tre en nål ― thread a needle

References

• “tre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /treː/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir, English three.

Alternative forms

• tri (bracket form, defunct)

Numeral

tre

1. three

Derived terms

Terms derived from tre (numeral)

• tredel
• tredeling
• tredimensjonal

• trefase
• trehjuls
• trekant

• tremenning
• treåring

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tré. Akin to English tree

Noun

tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre, definite plural trea)

1. tree

   Trea i skogen var gamle.

   The trees in the forest were old.

2. wood

Derived terms

Terms derived from tre (tree, wood)

• almetre
• balltre
• bartre
• eiketre
• epletre
• frukttre
• joletre
• juletre
• kakaotre
• kirsebærtre
• lønnetre

• nedfallstre
• oliventre
• palmetre
• stamtre
• trearbeid
• treblåseinstrument
• treboks
• trebåt
• tregrense
• trehest
• trehus

• trekors, trekross
• trekrone
• tremasse
• treskjerar
• tresko
• tresleiv
• tresnitt
• trestamme
• trestykke
• treverk

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German treden. Akin to English tread

Verb

tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, past participle tredd or trett, passive infinitive treast, present participle treande, imperative tre)

1. (military) to step (in, out etc.)

   Tre av!

   Dismissed!

Derived terms

• opptre

References

• “tre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Adverb

1. very

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tré, tri, trí

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *trē (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”); compare Sanskrit तिरस् (tiras), Latin trāns and Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲrʲe/

Preposition

tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. through
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3^c2

     tri chretim i n-Ísu ꝉ isin beothu i táa Ísu iar n-esséirgu

     through belief in Jesus or in the life in which Jesus is after resurrection

Inflection

Inflection of tre

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.	trium
2d person sing.	triut	triutsu
3d sing. masc./neut., dative
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative	triit	triitsom, trítsom
3d sing. fem., dative
3d sing. fem., accusative	tree
1st person pl.	triunn	triunni
2d person pl.	triib
3d person pl., dative
3d person pl., accusative	treu, treo

Forms combined with a definite article:

• tris(s)in (“through the m sg or f sg”)
• tris(s)a (“through the n sg”)
• trisna (“through the pl”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• trim, trem (“through my”)
• tria, trea (“through his/her/its/their”)

Forms combined with a relative pronoun:

• tresa (“through which”)

Related terms

• trá
• tremi-

 

Descendants

• Irish: trí, tré
• Scottish Gaelic: tre

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 433, 856, pages 272–73, 533–34; reprinted 2017 (Please provide a date or year)
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 301

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɛ/

Numeral

tre

1. three

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Romanian

Etymology

Short form of trebuie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tre]

Verb

tre

1. (informal) third-person singular present indicative of trebui

Synonyms

• trebe
• trebie
• trebuie

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tre (“through”), from Proto-Celtic *trē (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”)

Preposition

tre

1. through, by means of

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Swedish

Swedish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tre     Ordinal : tredje

Etymology

From Old Swedish þrir, þrī, from Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Norwegian and Danish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

• audio:

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Numeral

tre

1. three

Synonyms

• trenne (archaic)

Coordinate terms

Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99

	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9
0—	noll	en/ett	två	tre	fyra	fem	sex	sju	åtta	nio
1—	tio	elva	tolv	tretton	fjorton	femton	sexton	sjutton	arton/aderton	nitton
2—	tjugo	tjugoen/-ett	tjugotvå	tjugotre	tjugofyra	tjugofem	tjugosex	tjugosju	tjugoåtta	tjugonio
3—	trettio	trettioen/-ett	trettiotvå	trettiotre	trettiofyra	trettiofem	trettiosex	trettiosju	trettioåtta	trettionio
4—	fyrtio	fyrtioen/-ett	fyrtiotvå	fyrtiotre	fyrtiofyra	fyrtiofem	fyrtiosex	fyrtiosju	fyrtioåtta	fyrtionio
5—	femtio	femtioen/-ett	femtiotvå	femtiotre	femtiofyra	femtiofem	femtiosex	femtiosju	femtioåtta	femtionio
6—	sextio	sextioen/-ett	sextiotvå	sextiotre	sextiofyra	sextiofem	sextiosex	sextiosju	sextioåtta	sextionio
7—	sjuttio	sjuttioen/-ett	sjuttiotvå	sjuttiotre	sjuttiofyra	sjuttiofem	sjuttiosex	sjuttiosju	sjuttioåtta	sjuttionio
8—	åttio	åttioen/-ett	åttiotvå	åttiotre	åttiofyra	åttiofem	åttiosex	åttiosju	åttioåtta	åttionio
9—	nittio	nittioen/-ett	nittiotvå	nittiotre	nittiofyra	nittiofem	nittiosex	nittiosju	nittioåtta	nittionio

Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

• 100: hundra
• 10³: tusen
• 10⁴: tiotusen (myriad)
• 10⁶: miljon
• 10⁹: miljard
• 10¹²: biljon
• 10¹⁵: biljard
• 10¹⁸: triljon
• 10²¹: triljard
• 10²⁴: kvadriljon
• 10²⁷: kvadriljard
• 10³⁰: kvintiljon
• 10³³: kvintiljard
• 10³⁶: sextiljon
• 10³⁹: sextiljard
• 10⁴²: septiljon
• 10⁴⁵: septiljard
• 10⁴⁸: oktiljon
• 10⁵¹: oktiljard
• 10⁵⁴: noniljon
• 10⁵⁷: noniljard
• 10⁶⁰: deciljon
• 10⁶³: deciljard
• 10⁶⁶: undeciljon
• 10⁶⁹: undeciljard
• 10⁷²: duodeciljon
• 10⁷⁵: duodeciljard
• 10⁷⁸: tredeciljon
• 10⁸¹: tredeciljard
• 10⁸⁴: quattuordeciljon
• 10⁸⁷: quattuordeciljard

…

• 10¹⁰⁰: googol

…

• 10¹²⁰: vigintiljon
• 10¹²³: vigintiljard

…

Related terms

• trea
• tredje

See also

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

Anagrams

• ert, ter

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Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate with Tocharian B trey, trai.

Numeral

tre

1. three

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-lɛː.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cây) tre • (𥯌, 椥)

1. bamboo

Related terms

• trúc
• nứa

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /treː/

Noun

tre f (plural trefi)

1. Alternative form of tref

Mutation

Mutated forms of tre

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tre	dre	nhre	thre

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.