pige
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pige c (singular definite pigen, plural indefinite piger)
- girl (a female child or adolescent)
- (embellishing or patronizing) girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age)
- Synonym: kvinde
- girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)
- girl, daughter (a female person one is the parent of)
- Synonym: datter
- girl, maid (a woman serving in a private household)
- Synonym: stuepige
Declension[edit]
Declension of pige
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “pige” in Den Danske Ordbog
- pige on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
pige
- inflection of piger:
See also[edit]
Noun[edit]
pige f (plural piges)
- measure
- 1865, Lorédan Larchey, Les Excentricités du langage, page 249:
- La pige est chez les ouvriers un morceau de bois donnant la longueur indiquée par le plan.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial) year (of age)
- du haut de ses trente piges ― in his/her thirties
- (colloquial) year (period of time in general)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
pigē
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