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berge

1. plural of berg

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berge

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bergen

From Middle French berche, from Vulgar Latin *barica, possibly a Celtic word, from Proto-Celtic *barros (“point, head, peak”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛʁʒ/

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berge f (plural berges)

1. bank (of river, canal)
2. raised pavement, banked edge
3. (slang) year

• “berge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gerbe, gerbé

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɐ̯ɡə/

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• Homophone: bärge

berge

1. inflection of bergen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

berge

1. Alternative form of barge

From Old Norse bjarga (“salvage, bring to shore”).

berge (imperative berg, present tense berger, passive berges, simple past and past participle berga or berget, present participle bergende)

1. to rescue, save, salvage

• berging

• “berge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• berga

From Old Norse bjarga.

berge (present tense bergar, past tense berga, past participle berga, passive infinitive bergast, present participle bergande, imperative berge/berg)

1. to rescue, save, salvage

• berging

• “berge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• berie, beriġe

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈber.je/, [ˈberˠ.je]

berġe f

1. berry

   Swā blæcre sēo berġe, swā swētre þæt sēaw.

   The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

• Middle English: berye, berȝe, berie, bery, byry, beriye
  • English: berry
  • Scots: berie, bery, berrie, berry