vri

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch frī, from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós.

Adjective

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vri

  1. free

Declension

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This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: vrij
    • Afrikaans: vry
    • Negerhollands: vri, vrie, fri
    • Aukan: felei
    • Caribbean Javanese: frèi, prèi, pré
    • Indonesian: prei (holiday, free, doing nothing)
    • Javanese: ꦥꦿꦺꦲꦶ (prèi)
    • Peranakan Indonesian: vry
    • Sundanese: peré

Middle Low German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Saxon frī.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /friː/
  • IPA(key): /friːʝ-/ (inflected stem with -g-)

Adjective

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vrî (comparative vrîer or vrîger, superlative vrîest or vrîgest)

  1. free

Declension

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or

Descendants

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Danish vride and Old Danish writhæ, from Old Norse ríða, vríða.

Verb

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vri (imperative vri, present tense vrir, passive vris, simple past vred or vrei or vridde, past participle vridd, present participle vriende)

  1. to turn, twist, wring
  2. (reflexive) to squirm, twist, wriggle, writhe
  3. (card games) to change the colour or suit that is allowed to play (according to the rules of the particular game)

Noun

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vri m (definite singular vrien, indefinite plural vrier, definite plural vriene)

  1. a twist
  2. (card games)
    1. a card game where one can dictate the colour or suit that is allowed to play
    2. a change of the playable colour(s) or suit(s) in such a card game

Adjective

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vri (masculine and feminine vri, neuter vritt, definite singular and plural vrie)

  1. (dialectal) difficult, intransigent

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vríða, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną. Originally a strong verb, it may now also be inflected as a weak verb. Related to vreid (wroth) and vreide (wrath).

Verb

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vri (present tense vrir, past tense vridde or vrei, supine vridd/vridt or vride, past participle vridd or vriden, present participle vridande, imperative vri)

  1. to turn, twist, wring
  2. (reflexive) to squirm, twist, wriggle, writhe
  3. (card games) to change the colour or suit that is allowed to play (according to the rules of the particular game)

Derived terms

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Noun

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vri m (definite singular vrien, indefinite plural vriar, definite plural vriane)

  1. a twist
  2. (card games)
    1. a card game where one can dictate the colour or suit that is allowed to play
    2. a change of the playable colour(s) or suit(s) in such a card game

Adjective

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vri (masculine and feminine vri, neuter vritt, definite singular and plural vrie, comparative vriare, indefinite superlative vriast, definite superlative vriaste)

  1. (dialectal) difficult, intransigent

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Anagrams

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Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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vri (Cyrillic spelling ври)

  1. inflection of vreti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative