brække
See also: brekke
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German breken, from Old Saxon brekan, cognate with English break, German brechen.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
brække (imperative bræk, infinitive at brække, present tense brækker, past tense brækkede, perfect tense har brækket)
- (transitive, intransitive) to break (to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled, or to cause to end up in two or more pieces)
- (transitive, intransitive) to break, crack, fracture (of a bone, to crack, or to cause to crack)
- (reflexive) to throw up, vomit (to regurgitate the contents of a stomach). See Thesaurus:vomit, Thesaurus:regurgitate
- Synonym: kaste op
Conjugation edit
Inflection of brække
Derived terms edit
- bræk (“vomit, break-in”)
- brækning (“vomiting”)
- halsbrækkende (“breakneck”)
- radbrække (“break on the wheel”)
References edit
- “brække” in Den Danske Ordbog