gera

See also: Gera and géra

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːɹa/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gera, gøra, gørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną.

Verb

gera (third person singular past indicative gjørdi, third person plural past indicative gjørdu, supine gjørt)

  1. to do, to make
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Danish gære, from German gären.

Verb

gera (third person singular past indicative geraði, third person plural past indicative gerað, supine gerað)

  1. to ferment, to brew
Conjugation

Icelandic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse gera, gøra, gørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈcɛːra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːra

Verb

gera (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gerði, supine gert)

  1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to do syn.
    Hvað ertu að gera?
    What are you doing?
    Letingjar gera aldrei neitt.
    Loafers never do anything.
  2. (transitive, governs the accusative) to make deriv. syn.
  3. to arbitrate, to determine deriv. syn.
  4. (impersonal) used with nouns denoting a weather condition to indicate that that type of weather is going on
    Það gerði rigningu.
    It rained.

Conjugation

gerast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að gerast
supine
(sagnbót)		 gerst
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 gerandist **
** 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 gerist við gerumst present
(nútíð)		 ég gerist við gerumst
þú gerist þið gerist þú gerist þið gerist
hann, hún, það gerist þeir, þær, þau gerast hann, hún, það gerist þeir, þær, þau gerist
past
(þátíð)		 ég gerðist við gerðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég gerðist við gerðumst
þú gerðist þið gerðust þú gerðist þið gerðust
hann, hún, það gerðist þeir, þær, þau gerðust hann, hún, það gerðist þeir, þær, þau gerðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 gerst (þú) gerist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
gerstu geristi *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɛɾa/

Verb

gera (infinitive kũgera)

  1. to count
    Mũndũ ageraga maimwo ndageraga maheo. - One counts refusals, does not count gifts.[1]
  2. to pass through
    Ĩgĩtithia gwĩciiria njĩra ĩrĩa ĩĩkũgera. - [The hyena (hiti)] stopped to consider which road he was going to take.[2]

Reference

  1. ↑ Cagnolo, C. (1933). The Akikuyu: Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore, p. 220. Nyeri, Kenya: Akikuyu in the Mission Printing School.
  2. ↑ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 302–303. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Anagrams

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʲɛˈra/

Adjective

gerà

  1. positive feminine singular nominative form of geras.
  2. positive feminine singular instrumental form of geras.

Luang

Noun

gera

  1. (Moa) water

Synonyms

References

  • Leti (2004, →ISBN, page 29 (comparative wordlist)

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • gerva
  • gørva
  • gøra
  • gǫrva

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). Cognate with Old English gearwian, Old Saxon garwian, gerwian, Old High German garawen.

Verb

gera (singular past indicative gerði, plural past indicative gørðu, past participle gerðr)

  1. to do, make

Conjugation

Conjugation of gera — mediopassive (weak class 1)
infinitive gerask
present participle gerandisk
past participle gerzk
indicative present past
1st-person singular gerumk gerðumk
2nd-person singular gerisk gerðisk
3rd-person singular gerisk gerðisk
1st-person plural gerumsk gerðumsk
2nd-person plural gerizk gerðuzk
3rd-person plural gerask gerðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular gerumk gørðumk
2nd-person singular gerisk gørðisk
3rd-person singular gerisk gørðisk
1st-person plural gerimsk gørðimsk
2nd-person plural gerizk gørðizk
3rd-person plural gerisk gørðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular gersk
1st-person plural gerumsk
2nd-person plural gerizk

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Verb

gera

  1. third-person singular present indicative of gerar
  2. second-person singular imperative of gerar

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • gyera

Etymology

Compare Spanish guerra

Noun

gera

  1. war

See also

  • digmaan

Venetian

Verb

gera

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of èser
  2. third-person plural imperfect indicative of èser

Westrobothnian

Verb

gera

  1. Alternative form of gjera
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