See begripe on Wiktionary
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"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Middle Low German",
"Norwegian Nynorsk verbs",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to grasp, understand, comprehend"
],
"links": [
[
"grasp",
"grasp"
],
[
"understand",
"understand"
],
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "begripa"
}
],
"word": "begripe"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "ofs",
"3": "bigrīpa"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian bigrīpa",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*bigrīpan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "be-",
"3": "gripe"
},
"expansion": "be- + gripe",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Frisian bigrīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- + gripe.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fy-infl-verb-st",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "begripe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "begripen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"infinitive-i-long"
]
},
{
"form": "begripen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"gerund",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "hawwe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"auxiliary"
]
},
{
"form": "begryp",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "begriep",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "begrypst",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "begriepst",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "begrypt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "begriep",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "begripe",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "begriepen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "begryp",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "begripend",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "begrepen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "begripe",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "begryp",
"2": "begripe",
"3": "begriep",
"4": "",
"5": "begrepen",
"class": "1"
},
"name": "fy-infl-verb-st"
}
],
"lang": "West Frisian",
"lang_code": "fy",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"West Frisian class 1 strong verbs",
"West Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"West Frisian lemmas",
"West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"West Frisian terms prefixed with be-",
"West Frisian verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to understand, to comprehend"
],
"links": [
[
"understand",
"understand"
],
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bəˈɡripə/"
}
],
"word": "begripe"
}
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