See also: brînge

English

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bringe (third-person singular simple present bringes or bringeth, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle broughte)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bring.

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Alemannic German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German bringen. Compare German bringen, Dutch brengen, English bring, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan).

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bringe (third-person singular simple present bringt, past participle praacht, auxiliary haa)

  1. to bring

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Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /brenɡə/, [ˈb̥ʁæŋə], [ˈb̥ʁæŋŋ̩]

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse bringa, from Proto-Germanic *bringô, which is related to *brinkaz (edge, hill).[1] Cognate with Swedish bringa, Old English bringádl (epilepsy).

Noun

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bringe c (singular definite bringen, plural indefinite bringer)

  1. chest (of a larger animal, especially horses)
Declension
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Declension of bringe
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bringe bringen bringer bringerne
genitive bringes bringens bringers bringernes
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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “167”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 167

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle Low German bringen, brengen, from Old Saxon brengian.

Cognate with English bring, German bringen, Dutch brengen, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan). Norwegian bringe and Swedish bringa are also borrowed from Low German.

Verb

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bringe (past tense bragte, past participle bragt)

  1. to bring
  2. to publish (in the mass media)
    Avisen bragte en historie om nogle vindruer.
    The newspaper published a story about some grapes.
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Conjugation of bringe
active passive
present bringer bringes
past bragte bragtes
infinitive bringe bringes
imperative bring
participle
present bringende
past bragt
(auxiliary verb have)
gerund bringen
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German

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bringe

  1. inflection of bringen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From bryngen (to bring).

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Noun

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bringe (plural bringes)

  1. (Early Middle English, hapax legomenon) gift
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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bringe

  1. Alternative form of bryngen

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse bringa.

Noun

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bringe f or m (definite singular bringa or bringen, indefinite plural bringer, definite plural bringene)

  1. chest

Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German bringen.

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bringe (imperative bring, present tense bringer, passive bringes, simple past brakte or bragte, past participle brakt or bragt, present participle bringende)

  1. to bring, fetch
  2. to take, carry
  3. to deliver
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The verb forms bragte and bragt are only used in Riksmål, and are presumably taken from Danish.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse bringa.

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bringe f (definite singular bringa, indefinite plural bringer, definite plural bringene)

  1. chest

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Old English

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbrin.ɡe/, [ˈbriŋ.ɡe]

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bringe

  1. inflection of bringan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German bringen, from Old High German bringan.

Compare German bringen, Dutch brengen, English bring.

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bringe

  1. to bring

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian brenga, bringa.

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Verb

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bringe

  1. to bring

Inflection

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Strong class 1
infinitive bringe
3rd singular past brocht
past participle brocht
infinitive bringe
long infinitive bringen
gerund bringen n
auxiliary hawwe
indicative present tense past tense
1st singular bring brocht
2nd singular bringst brochtst
clitic form bringsto brochtsto
3rd singular bringt brocht
plural bringe brochten
imperative bring
participles bringend brocht

Further reading

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  • bringe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011