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begripe

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbegripen,bigripen, fromOld Englishbegrīpan(“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), fromProto-West Germanic*bigrīpan. Equivalent tobe-(“around, about”) +‎gripe.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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begripe (third-person singular simple presentbegripes,present participlebegriping,simple past and past participlebegriped)

  1. (transitive) Tolay hold of;apprehend;grip;grasp.
    • 1865, Dante Alighieri,The Comedy of Dante Allighieri.[sic]: Part I--The Hell:
      He, with his middle feet,begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek.
    • 1899, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton,Le morte Darthur:
      And as for this sword there shall never manbegripe it at the handle but one, but he shall pass all other. In the name of God, said Percivale, I shall essay to handle it. So he set his hand to the sword, but he might notbegripe it.

Related terms

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Middle Dutch

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Verb

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begripe

  1. inflection ofbegripen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Low Germanbegripen.

Verb

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begripe (imperativebegrip,present tensebegriper,passivebegripes,simple pastbegreporbegreip,past participlebegrepet,present participlebegripende)

  1. tograsp,understand,comprehend

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Low Germanbegripen.

Verb

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begripe (present tensebegrip,past tensebegreip,past participlebegripe,passive infinitivebegripast,present participlebegripande,imperativebegrip)

  1. tograsp,understand,comprehend

Alternative forms

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West Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisianbigrīpa, fromProto-West Germanic*bigrīpan. Equivalent tobe- +‎gripe.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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begripe

  1. tounderstand, tocomprehend

Inflection

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Strong class 1, prefixed
infinitivebegripe
3rd singular pastbegriep
past participlebegrepen
infinitivebegripe
long infinitivebegripen
gerundbegripen n
auxiliaryhawwe
indicativepresent tensepast tense
1st singularbegrypbegriep
2nd singularbegrypstbegriepst
clitic formbegrypstobegriepsto
3rd singularbegryptbegriep
pluralbegripebegriepen
imperativebegryp
participlesbegripendbegrepen

Further reading

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  • “begripe”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
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