frue

frue

See also: früe

Danish

Etymology

From Old Saxon frūa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fruːə/, [ˈfʁ̥uːə]

Noun

frue c (singular definite fruen, plural indefinite fruer)

1. wife
2. lady
3. mistress
4. madam, ma'am (polite term of address to a woman)

Inflection

Declension of frue

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

Further reading

• frue on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Adverb

frue

1. early
   • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud John Gabriel Borkman,

     Ŝi skribas, ke morgaŭ frue ili forvojaĝos.

     She writes that early tomorrow they will leave.

Antonyms

• malfrue

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Ido

Adverb

frue

1. early

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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

• havfrue
• oldfrue

Related terms

• fru

References

• “frue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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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

• havfrue
• oldfrue

Related terms

• fru

References

• “frue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.