vorde
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Danish warthæ, from Old Norse verða, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to become, happen”), cognate with obsolete English worth, Faroese verða, Icelandic verða, Norwegian Nynorsk verta, Swedish varda, German werden, Dutch worden.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vorde (past tense vordede, past participle vordet)
- (archaic, copulative) to become, get (go from one state into another, with a predicative)
- 1837, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Sang-Værk til den Danske Kirke (= Den danske Salmebog, no. 104) / https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig1837a12:
- Da vorder Engle vi som de.
- Then we will become angels like them.
- 1837, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Sang-Værk til den Danske Kirke / https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig2001061835:
- Som en Fader vorder vred | paa Døttre og paa Sønner ...
- Like a father gets angry at his daughters and his sons ...
- Som en Fader vorder vred | paa Døttre og paa Sønner ...
- 1837, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Sang-Værk til den Danske Kirke (= Den danske Salmebog, no. 104) / https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig1837a12:
- (archaic, auxiliary) to be (used with the past participle to form the passive voice)
- 1931, Det Danske Bibelselskab, Bibelen:
- Helliget vorde dit Navn (in the 1992 translation: Helliget blive dit navn)
- Hallowed be thy name.
- (archaic, intransitive) to come into being
- 1936, Per Krarup, “Platon. Sofisten”, in Platons Skrifter, volume 7, page 56:
- Naar nu en af dem bruger Udtryk som "der er" eller "der er vordet" eller "der vorder" mange eller eet eller to Principper ...
- When some of them use phrases such as many or one or two principles "exist" or "have come into being" or "are coming into being" ...
Conjugation edit
Inflection of vorde
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse verða, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to become, happen”).
Verb edit
vorde (present tense vorder, past tense vorda or vordet, past participle vorda or vordet)
Derived terms edit
- i sin vorden ("in the making", "in embryo")
- vordende ("future", "to be")
Swedish edit
Verb edit
vorde
- (dated) past subjunctive of varda