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bedrift

English

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Etymology

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From be- (“about, around”) +‎ drift.

Verb

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bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
    • 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:
      The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
    • 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:
      Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]
    • 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:
      [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]
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Danish

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Etymology

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Formally a nominalization of bedrive (with the verbal noun drift as its second part). Influenced by Middle Low German bedrif and German Betrieb.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /beˈdreft/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁæfd̥]

Noun

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bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)

  1. achievement
  2. company, business, trade
  3. farm

Declension

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Declension of bedrift
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bedrift bedriften bedrifter bedrifterne
genitive bedrifts bedriftens bedrifters bedrifternes

Derived terms

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

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bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

  1. a company or business

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

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bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

  1. a company or business

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Swedish

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Noun

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bedrift c

  1. feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
  2. achievement
  3. (archaic) company or business

Declension

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Declension of bedrift
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bedrift bedrifts
definite bedriften bedriftens
plural indefinite bedrifter bedrifters
definite bedrifterna bedrifternas

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