dra
Translingual
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *drag-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”), likely of non-Indo-European origin.[1][2]
Related terms
References
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 141
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*dragjō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “*dʰragʰ-ieh₂-”
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdra]
Synonyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.
Verb
dra (imperative dra, present tense drar, passive dras, simple past dro or drog, past participle dratt or dradd, present participle dragende)
Alternative forms
- drage (obsolete in Bokmål, but used in Nynorsk and Danish)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drɑː/
Verb
dra (present tense dreg or drar, simple past drog, supine drege or dratt or dradd, past participle dregen or dradd, present participle dragande, imperative dra)
Derived terms
Swedish
Alternative forms
- draga (dated)
Etymology
Apocopic form of draga, from Old Swedish dragha, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drɑː/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
Verb
dra (present drar, preterite drog, supine dragit, imperative dra)
- to pull
- Han drog i repet
- He pulled the rope (i adds a nuance of "pulled on," rather than "pulled along the ground" or the like)
- to tell a short story or joke
- Dra den där fräckisen igen som du drog igår kväll
- Hey, tell that dirty story again, the one you told last night
- (often with a particle like fram (“forth”)) to move (often of something large, like a storm or an army)
- Stormen drog fram över ön
- The storm swept across the island
- Stormen drog in över ön
- The storm moved in over the island
- (colloquial) to go (somewhere), to leave (for some other place)
- Ska vi dra ner på stan?
- Wanna go downtown?
- Vi drog hem till Nisse
- We went to Nisse's place
- Vi drar!
- Let's get out of here!
- (with med (“with”)) to be burdened (with)
- Han drogs med flera åkommor
- He was burdened with several ailments
Conjugation
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | dra | dras | ||
Supine | dragit | dragits | ||
Imperative | dra | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | dran | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | drar | drog | dras | drogs |
Ind. plural1 | dra | drogo | dras | drogos |
Subjunctive2 | dra | droge | dras | droges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | dragande | |||
Past participle | dragen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | draga | dragas | ||
Supine | dragit | dragits | ||
Imperative | drag | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | dragen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | drager | drog | drages | drogs |
Ind. plural1 | draga | drogo | dragas | drogos |
Subjunctive2 | drage | droge | drages | droges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | dragande | |||
Past participle | dragen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived terms
Further reading
- dra in Svensk ordbok.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English drawen, from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 36