pige

See also: pigé and pígé

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse píka, cognate with Icelandic píka and the Swedish piga.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /piːə/, [ˈpʰiːə]

Noun

pige c (singular definite pigen, plural indefinite piger)

girl
Hun var en god pige i dag.
She was a good girl today.

Inflection

Declension of pige

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pige	pigen	piger	pigerne
genitive	piges	pigens	pigers	pigernes

Further reading

pige on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Verb

pige

first-person singular present indicative of piger
third-person singular present indicative of piger
first-person singular present subjunctive of piger
third-person singular present subjunctive of piger
second-person singular imperative of piger

See also

pigé

Noun

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.
(colloquial) year (of age)
du haut de ses trente piges ― in his/her thirties

Further reading

“pige” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

pigē

second-person singular present active imperative of pigeō

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