frue

See also: früe

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed Old Saxon frūa.

Cognate with German Frau (“woman”), Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), vrouw (“woman”), Old Norse freyja (“lady”), Freyja (name of goddess) (late Old Norse frúa and Swedish fru are also borrowed from Old Saxon). A feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fruːə/, [ˈfʁ̥uːu], [ˈfʁ̥oːo]

Noun

frue c (singular definite fruen, plural indefinite fruer)

1. (formal, dated) lady (a married adult woman)
2. (formal, dated) Mrs, ma'am (a polite address of an adult women)

   with a name always in the short form fru

3. (formal or humorous) wife
4. (historical) lady, mistress (a woman that rules in area)

Declension

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frue	fruen	fruer	fruerne
genitive	frues	fruens	fruers	fruernes

Declension of frue

References

• “frue” in Den Danske Ordbog
• frue on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adverb

frue

1. early
   • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, John Gabriel Borkman‎:

     Ŝi skribas, ke morgaŭ frue ili forvojaĝos.

     She writes that early tomorrow they will leave.

Antonyms

• malfrue

Ido

Adverb

frue

1. early

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frú, frúa and frúva.

Noun

frue f or m (definite singular frua or fruen, indefinite plural fruer, definite plural fruene)

1. housewife, mistress (of the house)
2. madam, Mrs
3. wife

Derived terms

• havfrue
• oldfrue

Related terms

• fru

References

• “frue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse frú, frúa and frúva.

Noun

frue f (definite singular frua, indefinite plural fruer, definite plural fruene)

1. housewife, mistress (of the house)
2. madam, Mrs
3. wife

Derived terms

• havfrue
• oldfrue

Related terms

• fru

References

• “frue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.