forstå
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish forstande, Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Equivalent to for- + stå. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål forstå, Norwegian Nynorsk forstå, Swedish förstå.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fʌˈsd̥ɔˀ]
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Cognate with Danish forstå, Norwegian Nynorsk forstå, Swedish förstå.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɔ̞ˈʂʈo̞ː]
Verb
forstå (imperative forstå, present tense forstår, simple past forsto or forstod, past participle forstått)
- to understand
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse forstanda, borrowed from Middle Low German forstanda, from Old Saxon farstandan. Cognate with Danish forstå, Norwegian Bokmål forstå, Swedish förstå.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɔ̞ˈʂʈo̞ː]
Verb
forstå (present tense forstår, past tense forstod, past participle forstått, passive infinitive forståast, present participle forståande, imperative forstå)
- to understand
Antonyms
Descendants
- Russenorsk: forstå
References
- “forstå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Russenorsk
Etymology
From Norwegian Nynorsk forstå.
References
- Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag