gifte

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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gifte

  1. plural of gif

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡiftə/, [ˈɡ̊ifd̥ə]

Etymology 1

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See gift (poison).

Noun

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gifte c

  1. indefinite plural of gift

Etymology 2

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See gift (married)

Adjective

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gifte

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

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

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

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

Noun

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gifte f

  1. gift, present
  2. gift, talent

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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  • Dutch: gift, gif
  • Limburgish: gif

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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gifte

  1. definite singular of gift
  2. plural of gift

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse gipta.

Verb

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

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

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Adjective

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gifte

  1. definite singular and plural of gift

Derived terms

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Swedish

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Adjective

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gifte

  1. definite natural masculine singular of gift

Noun

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gifte n

  1. (somewhat formal) a marriage
    Synonym: äktenskap

Declension

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

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gifte

  1. past indicative of gifta

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