forstå

From Old Danish forstande, Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Equivalent to for- +‎ stå. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål forstå, Norwegian Nynorsk forstå, Swedish förstå.

• IPA^(key):

forstå (imperative forstå, infinitive at forstå, present tense forstår, past tense forstod, perfect tense har forstået)

1. to understand

From Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Cognate with Danish forstå, Norwegian Nynorsk forstå, Swedish förstå.

• IPA^(key):

forstå (imperative forstå, present tense forstår, simple past forsto or forstod, past participle forstått)

1. to understand

• misforstå

• forståelig
• forståelse

• forstand

• “forstå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “forstå” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Cognate with Danish forstå, Norwegian Bokmål forstå, Swedish förstå.

• IPA^(key):

forstå (present tense forstår, past tense forstod, past participle forstått, passive infinitive forståast, present participle forståande, imperative forstå)

1. to understand

• misforstå

• forstand
• fatta
• skjønna, skyna

• Russenorsk: forstå

• “forstå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Norwegian Nynorsk forstå.

• IPA^(key): /fɔˈʂʈoː/ (Norwegian accent)
• IPA^(key): /fɐʂˈto/ (Russian accent)

forstå

1. to understand

   Moja njet forstå

   I don't understand

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag