berge

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berge

1. plural of berg

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berge

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bergen

• IPA^(key): /bɛʁʒ/

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Inherited from Middle French berche, from Vulgar Latin *barica, possibly a Celtic word, from Proto-Celtic *barros (“point, head, peak”).

berge f (plural berges)

1. bank (of river, canal)
2. raised pavement, banked edge

Borrowed from Romani berś.

berge f (plural berges)

1. (slang, chiefly in the plural) year
   • 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Veronica:

     Et moi, j'étais là, avec mes quinze berges, et je le voyais pas bouger.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “berge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gerbe, gerbé

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɐ̯ɡə/

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• Homophone: bärge

berge

1. inflection of bergen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

berge

1. alternative form of barge

From Old Norse bjarga (“salvage, bring to shore”).

berge (imperative berg, present tense berger, passive berges, simple past and past participle berga or berget, present participle bergende)

1. to rescue, save, salvage

• berging

• “berge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• berga

From Old Norse bjarga.

berge (present tense bergar, past tense berga, past participle berga, passive infinitive bergast, present participle bergande, imperative berge/berg)

1. to rescue, save, salvage

• berging

• “berge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• berie, beriġe

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈber.je/, [ˈberˠ.je]

berġe f

1. berry

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• Middle English: berye, berȝe, berie, bery, byry, beriye
  • English: berry
  • Scots: berie, bery, berrie, berry
  • ⇒ Yola: kraanberry