bedrift

English edit

Etymology edit

From be- (“about, around”) +‎ drift.

Verb edit

bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

(transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
- 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:
  The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
- 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:
  Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]
- 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:
  [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]

Related terms edit

bedrive

Danish edit

Etymology edit

Formally a nominalization of bedrive (with the verbal noun drift as its second part). Influenced by Middle Low German bedrif and German Betrieb.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /beˈdreft/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁæfd̥]

Noun edit

bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)

Declension edit

Declension of bedrift

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bedrift	bedriften	bedrifter	bedrifterne
genitive	bedrifts	bedriftens	bedrifters	bedrifternes

Derived terms edit

References edit

“bedrift” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun edit

bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

a company or business

References edit

“bedrift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun edit

bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

a company or business

References edit

“bedrift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish edit

Noun edit

bedrift c

feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
achievement
(archaic) company or business

Declension edit

Declension of bedrift
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bedrift	bedriften	bedrifter	bedrifterna
Genitive	bedrifts	bedriftens	bedrifters	bedrifternas

Synonyms edit