drage
Central Franconian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)
- dragon (legendary creature)
- drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
- kite
- hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
- dragon keelboat
- Viking longship
Inflection edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget, c dragen, definite or plural dragne)
Conjugation edit
Etymology 3 edit
From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)
Inflection edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | drage | drageen | drageer | drageerne |
genitive | drages | drageens | drageers | drageernes |
Dutch edit
Verb edit
drage
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Danish drage, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog or dro, past participle draget or dragen)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by dra
References edit
- “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “drage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Noun edit
drage
Serbo-Croatian edit
Adjective edit
drage
- inflection of drag:
Noun edit
drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
drage
- to carry
Inflection edit
Strong class 6 | ||||
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infinitive | drage | |||
3rd singular past | droech | |||
past participle | dragen | |||
infinitive | drage | |||
long infinitive | dragen | |||
gerund | dragen n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | draach | droech | ||
2nd singular | draachst | droechst | ||
3rd singular | draacht | droech | ||
plural | drage | droegen | ||
imperative | draach | |||
participles | dragend | dragen |
Further reading edit
- “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011