køre

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kore"

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /køːrə/, [ˈkʰøːɐ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse keyra, from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną, Norwegian kjøre, Swedish köra.

Verb

køre (imperative kør, infinitive at køre, present tense kører, past tense kørte, perfect tense har/er kørt)

  1. (transitive) to drive (to be the driver of a vehicle or to convey somebody in a vehicle)
  2. (intransitive) to drive (to go somewhere in a vehicle), to ride (to go somewhere, e.g. on a bike)
  3. (intransitive) to run (of a machine)
Conjugation
Inflection of køre
present past
simple kører kørte
perfect har or er kørt havde or var kørt
passive køres kørtes
participle kørende kørt
imperative kør —
infinitive køre —
auxiliary verb have or være —
gerund køren —
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

From the verb, compare Norwegian kjør, Swedish kör.

Noun

køre c (singular definite køren, not used in plural form)

  1. (obsolete) drive
    only in the expression i en køre (“incessantly”)

References
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