gifte

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

gifte

  1. plural of gif

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See gift (“poison”).

Noun

gifte c

  1. indefinite plural of gift

Etymology 2

See gift (“married”)

Adjective

gifte

  1. inflection of gift:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Etymology 3

From Old Norse gipta (“give away in marriage”), a specialized use of gipt (“gift”).

Verb

gifte (imperative gift, infinitive at gifte, present tense gifter, past tense giftede, perfect tense har giftet)

  1. marry
Synonyms
  • (to give children away in marriage): bortgifte
  • (to take for husband or wife): ægte
  • (to perform the ceremony of joining spouses): vie

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.

Noun

gifte f

  1. gift, present
  2. gift, talent

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: gift, gif
  • Limburgish: gif

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

gifte

  1. definite singular of gift
  2. plural of gift

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gipta.

Verb

gifte (imperative gift, present tense gifter, simple past and past participle gifta or giftet)

  1. (reflexive) to marry or wed
    gifte seg på nytt ― to remarry
  2. (non-reflexive) gifte bort sin datter - (of a father) to give one's daughter away (in marriage)
Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

gifte

  1. definite singular and plural of gift

Derived terms

Swedish

Adjective

gifte

  1. definite natural masculine singular of gift

Noun

gifte n

  1. (somewhat formal) a marriage
    Synonym: äktenskap

Declension

Declension of gifte 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gifte giftet giften giftena
Genitive giftes giftets giftens giftenas

Related terms

Verb

gifte

  1. past indicative of gifta

References

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