From Middle High German dragen, from Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.
drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)
From Old Danish draghæ, drake, Old East Norse *draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | drage | dragen | drager | dragerne |
genitive | drages | dragens | dragers | dragernes |
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget, c dragen, definite or plural dragne)
From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).
drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | drage | drageen | drageer | drageerne |
genitive | drages | drageens | drageers | drageernes |
drage
From Danish drage, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.
drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)
drage (present tense drager, past tense drog or dro, past participle draget or dragen)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)
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drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)
From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.
drage
Strong class 6 | ||||
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infinitive | drage | |||
3rd singular past | droech | |||
past participle | dragen | |||
infinitive | drage | |||
long infinitive | dragen | |||
gerund | dragen n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | draach | droech | ||
2nd singular | draachst | droechst | ||
clitic form | draachsto | droechsto | ||
3rd singular | draacht | droech | ||
plural | drage | droegen | ||
imperative | draach | |||
participles | dragend | dragen |