drei

• droi (South Central Bavarian)

From Middle High German drī, from Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /d̥rɑɛ̯/

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• IPA^(key): /d̥ræː/ (East Central, Vienna)

drei

1. three

From Middle High German and Old High German drī.

• IPA^(key): /dʀei̯/ (Ripuarian)
  • In proper pronunciation, Ripuarian drei does not rhyme with zwei /tsʋɛi̯/, but younger speakers may merge these diphthongs.
• IPA^(key): /dʀɛi̯/, /dʀʌi̯/ (Moselle Franconian)

drei

1. (most dialects) three

• dreimol
• drett
• dressig, dreißig

• drey (obsolete)
• Drei (when used substantively)

From Middle High German and Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Dutch drie, English three, Danish tre.

• IPA^(key): /dʁaɪ̯/, [dʁaɪ̯]

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯

drei

1. (cardinal number) three (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 3; or describing a set with three elements)
   • 1845, Carl von Holtei, Theater. In einem Bande, Breslau, page 370:

     Wenn also diese Küsse zu dem letzten
     Gerechnet werden, ist die Summe drei,
     Wie aller guten Dinge dreie sind.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• In adjectival use (that is, with a following noun):
  • Nominative, dative, and accusative are always uninflected.
  • The genitive case takes the form dreier if no article or pronoun is preceding: Vater dreier Kinder – “a father of three children”; but: der Vater der drei Kinder – “the father of the three children”. The form dreier is somewhat elevated; even in formal writing it is sometimes more natural to avoid it (Vater von drei Kindern).
• In substantival use (that is, without a following noun):
  • Nominative and accusative are uninflected in the contemporary standard language. The form dreie still exists in colloquial German, chiefly in eastern Germany.
  • The dative case may take the form dreien: Ich sprach mit dreien. – “I spoke with three (people).” This rule is usually observed in formal standard German; but when a specification in the genitive case (or with von) is following, the bare form is more common: Ich sprach mit drei der Zeugen. – “I spoke with three of the witnesses.” In colloquial German, dreien is never obligatory.

• “drei” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “drei” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “drei” in Duden online
• drei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• dree (some dialects)

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrīe, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Ultimately cognate to German drei, Dutch drie, English three, Plautdietsch dree.

drei

1. (Low Prussian, Münsterland) three (3)

• (Münsterländisch) twee (“two”); veer (“four”); fyv; seß; ; ; niegen; tein (“ten”); twintig (“twenty”); hundert; duusend — eerste (“first”); tweede; diädde; veerde

Inherited from Central Franconian drei, from Middle High German and Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.[1]

Cognate with German drei and Luxembourgish dräi.

• IPA^(key): /traɪ̯/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯
• Hyphenation: drei

drei

1. three

   Meer hon drei Kinner.

   We have three children.

drei

1. Alternative form of drye

drei

1. Alternative form of dregh

drei

1. imperative of dreie

From Middle High German and Old High German drī. Compare German drei, Dutch drie, English three.

• IPA^(key): /draɪ̯/

drei

1. three

From Proto-Chamic *drɛy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadiʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadiʀi.

drei

1. we (inclusive)

drei

1. classifier for animals

• James A. Tharp, Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980) A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, archived from the original on 1 November 2021, page 26

From English dry.

drei

1. dry