drage
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See also: dragé
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German dragen, from Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.
Pronunciation
Verb
drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
Pronunciation
Noun
drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)
- dragon (legendary creature)
- drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
- kite
- hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
- dragon keelboat
- Viking longship
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).
Pronunciation
Verb
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget, c dragen, definite or plural dragne)
Conjugation
Etymology 3
From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)
Inflection
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | drage | drageen | drageer | drageerne |
| genitive | drages | drageens | drageers | drageernes |
Dutch
Verb
drage
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Danish drage, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.
Alternative forms
Noun
drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)
Etymology 2
Verb
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog or dro, past participle draget or dragen)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by dra
References
- “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-.
Pronunciation
Verb
drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)
Derived terms
References
- “drage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
drage
- inflection of dragan:
Romanian
Noun
drage
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
drage
- inflection of drag:
Noun
drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.
Pronunciation
Verb
drage
- to carry
Inflection
| Strong class 6 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | drage | |||
| 3rd singular past | droech | |||
| past participle | dragen | |||
| infinitive | drage | |||
| long infinitive | dragen | |||
| gerund | dragen n | |||
| auxiliary | hawwe | |||
| indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st singular | draach | droech | ||
| 2nd singular | draachst | droechst | ||
| clitic form | draachsto | droechsto | ||
| 3rd singular | draacht | droech | ||
| plural | drage | droegen | ||
| imperative | draach | |||
| participles | dragend | dragen | ||
Further reading
- “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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