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Middle English
Etymology 1
Verb
drepe
- Alternative form of drepen (“to strike”)
Etymology 2
Verb
drepe
- Alternative form of drepen (“to drop”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse drepa (“to stab, hit”), compare Dutch and German treffen and English drub.
Verb
drepe (imperative drep, present tense dreper, passive drepes, simple past drepte, past participle drept, present participle drepende)
- To kill, to murder.
- Hun er mistenkt for å ha drept faren sin.
- She is suspected of having killed her father.
- En person ble drept og to alvorlig såret i en bilulykke.
- One person was killed and two were seriously injured in a car accident.
- Den drepte var 40 år gammel.
- The victim was 40 years old. (literally: "the killed was 40 years old")
- To ruin, strain, extinguish, kill. (of persons)
- Den evinnelige masingen din har drept arbeidslysten min!
- Your constant nagging has ruined my zeal for work!
- Den filmen var drepende kjedelig!
- That film was incredibly boring! (literally: "that film was killingly boring")
- Da du sa de ordene, drepte du følelsene hennes.
- When you said those words, you killed her feelings.
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Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “drepe” in The Ordnett Dictionary
- “drepe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
drepe (present tense drep, past tense drap, supine drepe, past participle drepen, present participle drepande, imperative drep)
- e-infinitive form of drepa
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse drepit, past participle neuter of drepa, whence also Norwegian Nynorsk drepa.
Verb
drepe
- past participle of drepa
References
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“strike, blow, deathblow”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to strike, slay, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to crush, grind, kill”).
Akin to Old Norse drep (“blow, deathblow”), Old Norse dráp (“deathblow”), Middle High German tref (“a strike, hit”), Old English drepan (“to kill”).
Pronunciation
Noun
drepe m
- a stroke, deathblow
- a slaying
- a violent death
Declension
Declension of drepe (strong i-stem)