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English
Verb
gren (third-person singular simple present grens, present participle grenning, simple past and past participle grenned)
- Obsolete spelling of grin.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
And snar at all that ever passed by
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Albanian
Noun
gren m
- eggs (of silk worm)
Declension
Further reading
- “gren”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
gren c (singular definite grenen, plural indefinite grene)
- a branch, bough (protrusion of wood from the trunk of a tree)
- (figuratively) a branch (something that branches from something else)
- I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden.
- In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.
- gren af en slægt, en virksomhed
- branch of a family, a company
Declension
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: gren
German Low German
Adjective
gren
- alternative form of green
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Danish gren (“branch, bough”), from Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch, point, part”), from Proto-Germanic *grain-.
Noun
gren f or m (definite singular grena or grenen, indefinite plural grener, definite plural grenene)
- a branch (of a tree etc.)
Derived terms
- abildgren
- olivengren
- palmegren
References
- “gren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
gren c
- a branch (on a tree or bush)
- Träd har grenar och kvistar
- Trees have branches and twigs
- Det hänger ett äpple på grenen
- There is an apple hanging on the branch
- Hon bröt av en gren från trädet
- She broke off a branch from the tree
- a branch (part that splits off like a branch, concretely or abstractly)
- grenuttag
- power strip ("branch outlet")
- a branch (line of family descent)
- den finska grenen av familjen
- the Finnish branch of the family
- a branch (subdivision)
- Geometri är en gren av matematiken
- Geometry is a branch of mathematics
- den norska grenen av organisationen
- the Norwegian branch of the organization
- (sports) an event, a discipline
- Längdhopp och tresteg är friidrottsgrenar
- Long jump and triple jump are track and field events
- an event (one of several contests that combine to make up a competition – only put separately from the sense above since "discipline" sounds off here)
- I nästa gren ska de tävlande äta tio kanelbullar så snabbt de kan
- In the next event, the contestants will be eating ten cinnamon buns as fast as they can
- (usually in the definite) a crotch (area where the legs split from the torso, or the corresponding area on clothing)
- Synonym: skrev
- sparka någon i grenen
- kick someone in the crotch
- Byxorna har hål i grenen
- The pants have a hole in the crotch
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Trivia
Both kvist (“twig”) and gren (“branch”) often appear in Swedish last names.
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Volapük
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gren (nominative plural grens)
Declension
1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Synonyms
- glen (obsolete spelling, l > r)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
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