fria

See also: Fria and fría

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠeː/

Pronoun

fria (emphatic friasa)

third-person singular feminine of fré

Latin

Verb

friā

second-person singular present active imperative of friō

References

fria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fria (present tense friar, past tense fria, past participle fria, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fria/fri)

Alternative form of fri (“to free”)
Alternative form of fri (“to propose marriage”)

Anagrams

fari, fira

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲi.a]

Determiner

frïa (triggers lenition in the masculine/neuter singular, /h/-prothesis in the feminine singular, and eclipsis in the plural)

Univerbation of fri ‎ a (“his, her, its, their”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɾi.ɐ/

Rhymes: -iɐ
Hyphenation: fri‧a

Adjective

fria

feminine singular of frio

Swedish

Etymology 1

Adjective

fria

inflection of fri:
1. definite singular
2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Norse frjá, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną.

Verb

fria (present friar, preterite friade, supine friat, imperative fria)

to propose; to ask for one's hand in marriage
to acquit; to clean someone from suspicions of wrongdoing; to find not guilty
Synonym: frikänna
(refereeing) to not blow the whistle, to let the game play on

Conjugation

Conjugation of fria (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	fria		frias
Supine	friat		friats
Imperative	fria		—
Imper. plural¹	frien		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	friar	friade	frias	friades
Ind. plural¹	fria	friade	frias	friades
Subjunctive²	frie	friade	fries	friades
	Participles
Present participle	friande
Past participle	friad
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Descendants

→ Finnish: riiata, riiustaa, friiata

Anagrams

fira