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gren

See also: Gren. and Greń

English

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Verb

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gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)

  1. Obsolete spelling of grin.

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Albanian

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Noun

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gren m

  1. eggs (of silk worm)

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɛːˀn/, [ˈɡ̊ʁæˀn]

Noun

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gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)

  1. a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
  2. (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)
    I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.
    In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.
    gren af en slægt, en virksomhed
    branch of a family, a company

Declension

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Declension of gren
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gren grenen grene grenene
genitive grens grenens grenes grenenes

Descendants

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  • Norwegian Bokmål: gren

German Low German

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Adjective

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gren

  1. Alternative form of green

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.

Noun

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gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)

  1. a branch (of a tree etc.)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse grein

Noun

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gren c

  1. a branch (on a tree or bush)
    Träd har grenar och kvistar
    Trees have branches and twigs
    Det hänger ett äpple på grenen
    There is an apple hanging on the branch
    Hon bröt av en gren från trädet
    She broke off a branch from the tree
  2. a branch (part that splits off like a branch, concretely or abstractly)
    grenuttag
    power strip ("branch outlet")
    1. a branch (line of family descent)
      den finska grenen av familjen
      the Finnish branch of the family
  3. a branch (subdivision)
    Geometri är en gren av matematiken
    Geometry is a branch of mathematics
    den norska grenen av organisationen
    the Norwegian branch of the organization
    1. (sports) an event, a discipline
      Längdhopp och tresteg är friidrottsgrenar
      Long jump and triple jump are track and field events
    2. an event (one of several contests that combine to make up a competition – only put separately from the sense above since "discipline" sounds off here)
      I nästa gren ska de tävlande äta tio kanelbullar så snabbt de kan
      In the next event, the contestants will be eating ten cinnamon buns as fast as they can
  4. (usually in the definite) a crotch (area where the legs split from the torso, or the corresponding area on clothing)
    sparka någon i grenen
    kick someone in the crotch
    Byxorna har hål i grenen
    The pants have a hole in the crotch
    Synonym: skrev

Declension

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Declension of gren
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gren grens
definite grenen grenens
plural indefinite grenar grenars
definite grenarna grenarnas

Derived terms

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Trivia

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Both kvist (“twig”) and gren (“branch”) often appear in Swedish last names.

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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English grain.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gren (nominative plural grens)

  1. grain (British English: corn)

Declension

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Declension of gren
singular plural
nominative gren grens
genitive grena grenas
dative grene grenes
accusative greni grenis
vocative 1 o gren! o grens!
predicative 2 grenu grenus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

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  • glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)

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