freue
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From Middle High German vröuwen.
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freue (third-person singular present freut, past tense fraut, past participle jefraut or jefreut)
- (Ripuarian, reflexive) to be glad, happy
- 1926, “Kut erop”[1]performed by Willi Ostermann:
- Mer sich denke kunnt, en ner Veedelstund de Feuerwehr wor do.
Die sooch dä Ovve noh, un jetz, ich sage jo:
Datt dat kumme sollt, wore Kender schold – wat hann die sich jefraut!
Die hatten drei Paar naße Söck höösch en die Pief jedaut.- As was expected, after 15 minutes the fire brigade arrived.
They checked the oven, and well, as I'm saying:
That all of that should’ve happened was some children’s fault—oh how glad they were!
They had carefully pushed three pairs of wet socks into that pipe.
- As was expected, after 15 minutes the fire brigade arrived.
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freue
- inflection of freuen: