See also: Drei and Dréi

Bavarian edit

Bavarian numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  2 3 4  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: drei

Alternative forms edit

  • droi (South Central)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German drī, from Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /d̥rɑɛ̯/
    • (file)
  • IPA(key): /d̥ræː/ (East Central, Vienna)

Numeral edit

drei

  1. three

Central Franconian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German and Old High German drī.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

drei

  1. (most dialects) three

Related terms edit

German edit

German numbers (edit)
30[a], [b]
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: drei
    Ordinal: dritte
    Sequence adverb: drittens
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3.
    Adverbial: dreimal
    Adverbial abbreviation: 3-mal
    Multiplier: dreifach
    Multiplier abbreviation: 3-fach
    Fractional: Drittel
    Polygon: Dreieck
    Polygon abbreviation: 3-Eck
    Polygonal adjective: dreieckig
    Polygonal adjective abbreviation: 3-eckig

Alternative forms edit

  • drey (obsolete)
  • Drei (when used substantively)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German and Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Dutch drie, English three, Danish tre.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

drei

  1. (cardinal number) three (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 3; or describing a set with three elements)
    • 1845, Carl von Holtei, Theater. In einem Bande, Breslau, page 370:
      Wenn also diese Küsse zu dem letzten
      Gerechnet werden, ist die Summe drei,
      Wie aller guten Dinge dreie sind.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension edit

  • In adjectival use (that is, with a following noun):
    • Nominative, dative, and accusative are always uninflected.
    • The genitive case takes the form dreier if no article or pronoun is preceding: Vater dreier Kinder – “a father of three children”; but: der Vater der drei Kinder – “the father of the three children”. The form dreier is somewhat elevated; even in formal writing it is sometimes more natural to avoid it (Vater von drei Kindern).
  • In substantival use (that is, without a following noun):
    • Nominative and accusative are uninflected in the contemporary standard language. The form dreie still exists in colloquial German, chiefly in eastern Germany.
    • The dative case may take the form dreien: Ich sprach mit dreien. – “I spoke with three (people).” This rule is usually observed in formal standard German; but when a specification in the genitive case (or with von) is following, the bare form is more common: Ich sprach mit drei der Zeugen. – “I spoke with three of the witnesses.” In colloquial German, dreien is never obligatory.

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • drei” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • drei” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • drei” in Duden online
  •   drei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

German Low German edit

Alternative forms edit

  • dree (some dialects)

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrīe, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Ultimately cognate to German drei, Dutch drie, English three, Plautdietsch dree.

Numeral edit

drei

  1. (Low Prussian, Münsterland) three (3)

See also edit

Hunsrik edit

Hunsrik numbers (edit)
30
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: drei
    Ordinal: dritt

Etymology edit

Inherited from Central Franconian drei, from Middle High German and Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.[1]

Cognate with German drei and Luxembourgish dräi.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

drei

  1. three
    Meer hon drei Kinner.
    We have three children.

References edit

  1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “drei”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 38

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

drei

  1. Alternative form of drye

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

drei

  1. Alternative form of dregh

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Verb edit

drei

  1. imperative of dreie

Pennsylvania German edit

Pennsylvania German cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : drei
    Ordinal : dritt

Etymology edit

From Middle High German and Old High German drī. Compare German drei, Dutch drie, English three.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

drei

  1. three

Rade edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Chamic *drɛy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadiʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadiʀi.

Pronoun edit

drei

  1. we (inclusive)

Classifier edit

drei

  1. classifier for animals

References edit

  • James A. Tharp; Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980) A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎[1], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2021-11-01, page 26

Sranan Tongo edit

Etymology edit

From English dry.

Adjective edit

drei

  1. dry