spørge

See also: sporge

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse spyrja (“ask”), from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate of German spüren (“to sense”), Dutch speuren (“to search thoroughly”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsb̥ɶɐ̯wə], [ˈsb̥ɶɐ̯ʊ], [ˈsb̥ɶːɐ]
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Verb

spørge (imperative spørg, infinitive at spørge, present tense spørger, past tense spurgte, perfect tense har spurgt)

to ask, inquire
De spurgte (mig), om jeg havde set noget.
They asked (me) if I had seen anything.
(obsolete, transitive) to find out about, to learn about

Conjugation

Inflection of spørge

	present	past
simple	spørger	spurgte
perfect	har spurgt	havde spurgt
passive	spørges	spurgtes
participle	spørgende	spurgt
imperative	spørg	—
infinitive	spørge	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	spørgen	—

Antonyms

svare

Derived terms

References

“spørge” in Den Danske Ordbog