freue

• fraaje, frähe, freie (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German vröuwen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʀœy̯ə/

freue (third-person singular present freut, past tense fraut, past participle jefraut or jefreut)

1. (Ripuarian, reflexive) to be glad, happy
   • 1926, “Kut erop”‎performed by Willi Ostermann:

     Mer sich denke kunnt, en ner Veedelstund de Feuerwehr wor do.
     Die sooch dä Ovve noh, un jetz, ich sage jo:
     Datt dat kumme sollt, wore Kender schold – wat hann die sich jefraut!
     Die hatten drei Paar naße Söck höösch en die Pief jedaut.

     As was expected, after 15 minutes the fire brigade arrived.
     They checked the oven, and well, as I'm saying:
     That all of that should’ve happened was some children’s fault—oh how glad they were!
     They had carefully pushed three pairs of wet socks into that pipe.

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ̯ə

freue

1. inflection of freuen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I