vedtage
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Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of ved (“by”) + tage (“to take”), cf. also Old Danish vethertagæ, takæ withær (“to approve, decide”) and Old Norse taka við (“to receive, go against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vedtage (imperative vedtag, present vedtager, past vedtog, past participle n vedtaget, c vedtagen, pl vedtagne)
- pass, decide
- 2005, Læs selv om mål, Pernille Pind, →ISBN, page 18:
- USA vedtog at gå over til metersystemet helt tilbage i 1800-tallet. Men det var folk ligeglade med.
- USA decided to switch to the metric system all the way back in the 19th century. But people didn't care about that.
- 2011, Iver Hornemann Møller, Jørgen Elm Larsen, Socialpolitik, Hans Reitzels Forlag, →ISBN, page 148:
- ... at man i 1920'erne vedtog en række ægteskabslove, ...
- ... that a series of marriage laws were passed in the 1920s, ...
- 2017, Orla Johansen, Nusserne, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
- ... da de vedtog en tilføjelse til straffeloven ...
- ... when they passed an addendum to the penal code ...