drei
BavarianEdit
| ← 2 | 3 | 4 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: drei | ||
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
drei
Central FranconianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German and Old High German drī.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
drei
- (most dialects) three
GermanEdit
| 30[a], [b] | ||
| ← 2 | 3 | 4 → |
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| 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 | ||
| German Wikipedia article on 3 | ||
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
drei
- (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 quote)
DeclensionEdit
- 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 termsEdit
German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
…
- 10100: Googol
…
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
…
Derived termsEdit
- Drei
- dreiarmig
- dreibeinig
- dreiblättrig
- Dreieck (dreieckig)
- Dreieinigkeit
- Dreier
- Dreierbündnis
- dreierlei
- Dreiertakt
- dreifach (Dreifachturnhalle)
- dreifaltig (Dreifaltigkeit)
- dreifarben
- dreifarbig
- dreifüßig
- Dreiheit
- dreijährig
- Dreikampf
- Dreikäsehoch
- Dreiklang
- Dreikönigsfest
- Dreilaut
- Dreimaster (dreimastig)
- dreimotorig
- dreiprozentig
- Dreirad
- Dreisatz
- dreiseitig
- dreisilbig
- Dreisprung
- dreißig
- dreistellig
- Dreisternehotel
- dreistufig
- dreitägig
- dreiteilig
- dreiwöchig, dreiwöchentlich
- Dreizack (dreizackig)
- dreizehn
- halbdrei
- verdreifachen (Verdreifachung)
Further readingEdit
- “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 GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- dree (some dialects)
EtymologyEdit
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.
NumeralEdit
drei
- (Low Prussian, Münsterland) three (3)
See alsoEdit
HunsrikEdit
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : drei Ordinal : dritt | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German and Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
drei
- three
- Meer hon drei Kinner.
- We have three children.
Further readingEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
drei
- Alternative form of drye
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
drei
- Alternative form of dregh
Norwegian BokmålEdit
VerbEdit
drei
- imperative of dreie
Pennsylvania GermanEdit
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : drei Ordinal : dritt | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German and Old High German drī. Compare German drei, Dutch drie, English three.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
drei
RadeEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Chamic *drɛy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadiʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadiʀi.
PronounEdit
drei
- we (inclusive)
ClassifierEdit
drei
- classifier for animals
ReferencesEdit
- 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 TongoEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
drei