berja

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse berja.

Verb

berja (third person singular past indicative bardi, third person plural past indicative bardu, supine bart)

  1. to beat

Conjugation

See also

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛrja/
    Rhymes: -ɛrja

Etymology 1

From Old Norse berja, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, to strike”).

Verb

berja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative barði, supine barið)

  1. to beat, to strike
Conjugation
berjast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að berjast
supine
(sagnbót)		 barist
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 berjandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég berst við berjumst present
(nútíð)		 ég berjist við berjumst
þú berst þið berjist þú berjist þið berjist
hann, hún, það berst þeir, þær, þau berjast hann, hún, það berjist þeir, þær, þau berjist
past
(þátíð)		 ég barðist við börðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég berðist við berðumst
þú barðist þið börðust þú berðist þið berðust
hann, hún, það barðist þeir, þær, þau börðust hann, hún, það berðist þeir, þær, þau berðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 berst (þú) berist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
berstu beristi *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • berjast ("to fight")
  • berja á ("to thrash")
  • berja í gegn ("to force through")
  • berja niður ("to suppress, to beat down")
  • berja saman ("to cobble together")
  • berja sér ("to gripe, to complain")

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ber (“berry”).

Noun

berja n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of ber
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