begripe
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begrīpan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + gripe.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
begripe (third-person singular simple present begripes, present participle begriping, simple past and past participle begriped)
- (transitive) To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.
- 1865, Dante Alighieri, The Comedy of Dante Allighieri. [sic]: Part I--The Hell:
- He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek.
- 1899, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte Darthur:
- And as for this sword there shall never man begripe it at the handle but one, but he shall pass all other. In the name of God, said Percivale, I shall essay to handle it. So he set his hand to the sword, but he might not begripe it.
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Middle Dutch edit
Verb edit
begripe
- inflection of begripen:
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German begripen.
Verb edit
begripe (imperative begrip, present tense begriper, passive begripes, simple past begrep or begreip, past participle begrepet, present participle begripende)
- to grasp, understand, comprehend
Derived terms edit
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German begripen.
Verb edit
begripe (present tense begrip, past tense begreip, past participle begripe, passive infinitive begripast, present participle begripande, imperative begrip)
- to grasp, understand, comprehend
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “begripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian bigrīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- + gripe.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
begripe
- to understand, to comprehend
Inflection edit
Strong class 1 | ||||
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infinitive | begripe | |||
3rd singular past | begriep | |||
past participle | begrepen | |||
infinitive | begripe | |||
long infinitive | begripen | |||
gerund | begripen n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | begryp | begriep | ||
2nd singular | begrypst | begriepst | ||
3rd singular | begrypt | begriep | ||
plural | begripe | begriepen | ||
imperative | begryp | |||
participles | begripend | begrepen |
Further reading edit
- “begripe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011