frase

See also: Frase, frasé, frâse, fräse, and fråse

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾa.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾa.ze]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase
2. sentence

   Synonym: sentència

Derived terms

• frase feta
• frase ganxo
• frasejar

Related terms

• fraseologia

Further reading

• “frase” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “frase”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “frase” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “frase” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fra‧se

Noun

frase f (plural frasen or frases, diminutive frasetje n)

1. phrase

Descendants

• → Indonesian: frase
  • Indonesian: frasa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaz/
• Homophones: frasent, frases

Verb

frase

1. inflection of fraser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase

Further reading

• “frase”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch frase (“phrase”), from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrasə]
• Hyphenation: fra‧sê

Noun

frase (plural)

1. obsolete form of frasa

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ze/
• Rhymes: -aze
• Hyphenation: frà‧se

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

frase f (plural frasi)

1. sentence
2. phrase, clause
3. expression, phrase
4. (music) phrase

Synonyms

• polirematica
• espressione
• locuzione

Related terms

• frase fatta
• fraseggiare
• fraseologia

Further reading

• frase in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• farse, fresa, sfare, sfera

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

frase m (definite singular frasen, indefinite plural fraser, definite plural frasene)

1. a phrase
2. (music) a phrase

Derived terms

• fraseologi

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

frase m (definite singular frasen, indefinite plural frasar, definite plural frasane)

1. a phrase

Derived terms

• fraseologi

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fraisō. Cognates include Old Saxon frēsa and Old Dutch frēsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraːse/

Noun

frāse f

1. danger

Descendants

• West Frisian: freze

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• phrase (pre-reform)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.zɨ/

• Hyphenation: fra‧se

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase (a short written or spoken expression)
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 146:

     O pobre rapaz, que conhecia a falsa posição em que se collocara com a sua phrase, sentia-se humilhado e como que vendido n’aquelle meio.

     The poor young lad, who knew the false position in which he had put himself with his phrase, felt humiliated and embarrassed in the group.

2. (grammar) sentence (grammatically complete series of words)

   Synonym: (archaic) sentença

3. (music) phrase (a small, somewhat independent series of notes)

Usage notes

• In grammar, frase is a false friend and does not mean "phrase". The word for "phrase" in Portuguese is locução or sintagma, depending on the context.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:frase.

Derived terms

• frasear

Related terms

• frasal

See also

• locução

Further reading

• “frase”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾase/ [ˈfɾa.se]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ase
• Syllabification: fra‧se

Noun

frase f (plural frases)

1. phrase
2. sentence

   Synonym: oración

Derived terms

• frase hecha
• frasear
• libro de frases

Further reading

• “frase”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10