frue

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See also: früe

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed Old Saxon frūa.

Cognate with German Frau (“woman”), Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), vrouw (“woman”), Old Norse freyja (“lady”), Freyja (name of goddess) (late Old Norse frúa and Swedish fru are also borrowed from Old Saxon). A feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”).

Pronunciation

Noun

frue c (singular definite fruen, plural indefinite fruer)

  1. (formal, dated) lady (a married adult woman)
  2. (formal, dated) Mrs, ma'am (a polite address of an adult women)
    with a name always in the short form fru
  3. (formal or humorous) wife
  4. (historical) lady, mistress (a woman that rules in area)

Declension

Declension of frue
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative frue fruen fruer fruerne
genitive frues fruens fruers fruernes

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adverb

frue

  1. early
    • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, John Gabriel Borkman‎:
      Ŝi skribas, ke morgaŭ frue ili forvojaĝos.
      She writes that early tomorrow they will leave.

Antonyms

Ido

Adverb

frue

  1. early

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frú, frúa and frúva.

Noun

frue f or m (definite singular frua or fruen, indefinite plural fruer, definite plural fruene)

  1. housewife, mistress (of the house)
  2. madam, Mrs
  3. wife

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse frú, frúa and frúva.

Noun

frue f (definite singular frua, indefinite plural fruer, definite plural fruene)

  1. housewife, mistress (of the house)
  2. madam, Mrs
  3. wife

Derived terms

References

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