bre
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]bre
See also
[edit]Albanian
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Etymology
[edit]From Greek βρε (vre), from Greek μωρέ (moré, “stupid”, vocative). Doublet of more.
Interjection
[edit]bre
- A friendly exclamation to a person.
- Folni bre, burra!
- Speak, therefore, men!
- An exclamation of surprise.
- Bre! Po ç'është kjo?
- Man! What is this?
Related terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bre
- Alternative form of brewe
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Of uncertain origin.
Noun
[edit]bre m (definite singular breen, indefinite plural breer, definite plural breene)
- a glacier
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]bre (imperative bre, present tense brer, passive bres, simple past bredde or bredte, past participle bredd or bredt, present participle breende)
- (also reflexive) to spread
Alternative forms
[edit]- breie (Nynorsk also)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “bre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “bre_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “bre_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin. Compare to Icelandic breði and Icelandic breðafönn
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bre m (definite singular breen, indefinite plural brear, definite plural breane)
- a glacier
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “bre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρέ (bré), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bre
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥ǵʰs. Distantly cognate with English borough.
Noun
[edit]bre m
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Greek μωρέ (moré). Doublet of mȏre.
Interjection
[edit]bre (Cyrillic spelling бре)
- (Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on or emphasize something being said or commanded, often also stressing the speaker’s perception of evidentness of the thing insisted on: bro, man, I say, I’m telling you, can’t you see
- (Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on an answer to or emphasize a question: on earth, the hell
- Šta si bre to uradio!? ― What the hell did you just do!?
- (Serbia, colloquial) used to intensify a preceding interjection
Usage notes
[edit]When marking a statement or question as insistent, bre is ordinarily found either immediately after the verb or at the end of the sentence. However, if an interjection or vocative is present, it can instead appear next to it, following an interjection and following or preceding a vocative. In wh-questions bre can also follow the interrogative pronoun.
Bre is also used in sentences in a similar way to "bro" in English.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Jasmina Milićević (2012) “Šta ustvari znači to bre? ‘What does this bre mean, actually?’ Defining Serbian interjection bre ≈ ‘I’m telling / asking you!’”
- Mirjana Mišković-Luković, Mirjana N. Dedaić, and Vladimir Polomac (2015) “The meaning and interpretation of the Serbian discourse marker BRE” in Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 87, pages 18–30
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From breda.
Verb
[edit]bre (present brer, preterite bredde, supine brett, imperative bre)
- (sometimes colloquial) Apocopic form of breda (“to spread”)
Conjugation
[edit]| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | bre | bres | ||
| Supine | brett | bretts | ||
| Imperative | bre | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | bren | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | brer | bredde | bres | breddes |
| Ind. plural1 | bre | bredde | bres | breddes |
| Subjunctive2 | bre | bredde | bres | breddes |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | breende | |||
| Past participle | bredd | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bre. Compare German Bre.
Interjection
[edit]bre
- (slang) bro (as a term of address)
- Sho bre!
- Sup bro!
- (slang) Emphasizes a statement or question.
- Det här spelet är fett svårt bre
- This game is super difficult, I'm telling you
Derived terms
[edit]References
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[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρέ (bré) (compare modern Greek βρε (vre) and ρε (re), Serbo-Croatian bre, Albanian bre), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).
Interjection
[edit]bre
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
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- ISO 639-2
- ISO 639-3
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerǵʰ-
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
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