fange

• IPA^(key): /faŋə/, [ˈfɑŋə], [ˈfɑŋŋ̩]

From Old Danish fange, borrowed from Middle Low German vangen (“to catch”), from vān, from Old Saxon fahan. Doublet of få (“to get”).

fange (past tense fangede, past participle fanget, c fangen, definite or plural fangne)

1. to catch, to capture

   Jeg kan fange fisk.

   I can catch fish.

• “fange,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Danish fange, borrowed from Middle Low German vangen (“captive”), a past participle of vangen, vān (“to catch”), from Old Saxon fahan.

Compare German Gefangener (“captive”). Late Old Norse fangi and Swedish fånga are also borrowed from Low German.

fange c (singular definite fangen, plural indefinite fanger)

1. prisoner, captive

• “fange,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Middle French fange, from Old French fange (“mud, addle, mire”), from Vulgar Latin *fanga ~ *fangus (“mud”) of Germanic origin, see there for more. Compare Spanish and Italian fango m. Doublet of fagne (“marshland, fen”).

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃ʒ/

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fange f (plural fanges) (literary)

1. filth, mire
2. (figurative) filth, baseness, debauchery
3. (archaic) fen, swamp

• fangeux

• fagne

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaŋə/
• Rhymes: -aŋə

fange

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

From Middle Low German vangene and Old Norse fangi.

fange m (definite singular fangen, indefinite plural fanger, definite plural fangene)

1. convict, inmate, prisoner

From Middle Low German vangen. Doublet of få.

fange (imperative fang, present tense fanger, passive fanges, simple past and past participle fanga or fanget, present participle fangende)

1. to catch, to capture

• fanger (noun)

• fangst

• “fange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /²fɑŋːə/

From late Old Norse fanga from Middle Low German vangen.^[1] Doublet of få.

• fanga (a-infinitive)

fange (present tense fangar, past tense fanga, past participle fanga, passive infinitive fangast, present participle fangande, imperative fange/fang)

1. to catch, to capture
2. (archaic) to receive

• bondefange

• fangst
• få

From late Old Norse fangi, from Middle Low German vangene.^[1]

fange m (definite singular fangen, indefinite plural fangar, definite plural fangane)

1. convict, inmate, prisoner

• fagne, fange, fegna, fenga

From Middle High German vāhen, from Old High German fāhan, from Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han. Compare German fangen, Dutch vangen.

fange

1. to catch, to seize

From Old Saxon fahan.

fange

1. to nab, to catch

From Old Frisian fā, from Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han. Cognates include West Frisian fange and German fangen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaŋə/
• Hyphenation: fan‧ge
• Rhymes: -aŋə

fange

1. (transitive) to catch

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “fange”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

From Old Frisian fā, from Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaŋə/

fange

1. to catch

• “fange (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011