drage

drage

See also: dragé

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• draan, droon (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʀaːɣə/

Verb

drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)

1. (most of Ripuarian) to carry, bear, wear

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Danish

drage

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

Noun

drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)

1. dragon (legendary creature)
2. drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
3. kite
4. hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
5. dragon keelboat
6. Viking longship

Inflection

Declension of drage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	dragen	drager	dragerne
genitive	drages	dragens	dragers	dragernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

Verb

drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget, c dragen, definite or plural dragne)

1. draw
2. attract, allure
3. go, march, travel

Conjugation

Inflection of drage

	present	past
simple	drager	drog
perfect	har draget	havde draget
passive	drages	drogs
participle	dragende	draget
imperative	drag	—
infinitive	drage	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	dragen	—

Etymology 3

From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).

Alternative forms

• dragé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̥ʁɑˈɕe]

Noun

drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)

1. dragée

Inflection

Declension of drage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	drageen	drageer	drageerne
genitive	drages	drageens	drageers	drageernes

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Dutch

Verb

drage

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dragen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish drage, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.

Alternative forms

• drake

Noun

drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

Verb

drage (present tense drager, past tense drog or dro, past participle draget or dragen)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by dra

References

• “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• draga (a and split infinitives)
• dra (short form)

Etymology

From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²drɑːɡɑ/

Verb

drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)

1. to pull; drag
2. to leave; depart; go

   å drage på ferie

   to go on holiday

Derived terms

• å dragast
• dragkamp
• oppdra

References

• “drage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Noun

drage

1. plural of dragă

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Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

drage

1. inflection of drag:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of draga

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraɣə/

Verb

drage

1. to carry

Inflection

Strong class 6
infinitive	drage
3rd singular past	droech
past participle	dragen
infinitive	drage
long infinitive	dragen
gerund	dragen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	draach	droech
2nd singular	draachst	droechst
3rd singular	draacht	droech
plural	drage	droegen
imperative	draach
participles	dragend	dragen

Further reading

• “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011