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Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hɛnə/,
Etymology 1
From Old Norse henda, from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to seize”), cognate with Swedish hända. Derived from the noun *handuz (“hand”).
Verb
hænde
- (intransitive) to happen (with or without an indirect object)
- 1973, Anders Bodelsen, Bevisets stilling, repr. 2011, https://books.google.dk/books?id=l04uwSJPT7sC&pg=PT102:
Nu vidste han ikke hvad der hændte hende, omkring hende og i hende, og han vidste ikke hvad hun tænkte.- Now, he didn't know what was happening to her, around her and within her, and he didn't know what she was thinking.
- (passive voice or reflexive, obsolete) to happen (with or without an indirect object)
1834, Bibelen, Deut. 23.10:Naar der er en Mand iblandt Eder, som ikke er reen for det, som ham kunde hændes om Natten, da skal han gaae ud udenfor Leiren.- When a man among you is not clean because of what might happen to him during the night, he must go outside the camp.
- (transitive, obsolete) to give
- 1891, Niels Møller, Aischylos. Agamemnon, vv. 369-70:
- O venlige Nat, | der hænded vor hær det strålende ry!
- O friendly Night, who gave the splendid fame to our army!
Conjugation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
hænde c
- (obsolete) dative singular indefinite of hånd
- only in the fixed expressions af hænde (“off the hands”) and i hænde (“in the hands”).