beren

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See also: Beren and béren

Basque

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Determiner

beren

  1. genitive plural of bera (he, she, it)
    Synonym: bere

Etymology 2

Adjective

beren

  1. superlative degree of bera (soft)
Declension
Declension of beren (adjective, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive beren berena berenak
ergative berenek berenak berenek
dative bereni berenari berenei
genitive berenen berenaren berenen
comitative berenekin berenarekin berenekin
causative berenengatik berenarengatik berenengatik
benefactive berenentzat berenarentzat berenentzat
instrumental berenez berenaz berenez
inessive anim berenengan berenarengan berenengan
inan berenetan berenean berenetan
locative anim
inan berenetako bereneko berenetako
allative anim berenengana berenarengana berenengana
inan berenetara berenera berenetara
terminative anim berenenganaino berenarenganaino berenenganaino
inan berenetaraino bereneraino berenetaraino
directive anim berenenganantz berenarenganantz berenenganantz
inan berenetarantz berenerantz berenetarantz
destinative anim berenenganako berenarenganako berenenganako
inan berenetarako berenerako berenetarako
ablative anim berenengandik berenarengandik berenengandik
inan berenetatik berenetik berenetatik
partitive berenik
prolative berentzat

Etymology 3

Adjective

beren

  1. genitive plural of bera (soft)

Etymology 4

Noun

beren

  1. genitive indefinite of be (letter bee)

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːrən

Noun

beren

  1. plural of beer

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch beran, from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną.

Verb

bēren

  1. (rare) to bear, to carry

Inflection

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Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English beran, from Proto-West Germanic *beran.

Pronunciation

Verb

beren (third-person singular simple present bereth, present participle berynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bar, past participle born)

  1. to bear

Conjugation

Conjugation of beren (strong class 4)
infinitive (to) beren, bere
present tense past tense
1st-person singular bere bar, ber
2nd-person singular berest bere, bare, bar, ber
3rd-person singular bereth bar, ber
subjunctive singular bere bere1, bare1
imperative singular
plural2 beren, bere beren, bere, baren, bare
imperative plural bereth, bere
participles berynge, berende boren, bore, yboren, ybore

1 Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

  • English: bear
  • Scots: bere, beir
  • Yola: ber, baar

References

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *barīnaz. Equivalent to bere +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

Adjective

beren

  1. (relational) barley
    beren hlāf
    barley bread
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *birīnaz.

Adjective

beren

  1. alternative form of biren
Declension

Old High German

Verb

bërēn

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of bëran