bilde

From German bilden, derived from the noun Bild.

• IPA^(key): /bilə/, [ˈb̥ilə] or IPA^(key): /belə/, [ˈb̥elə]

bilde (past tense bildte, past participle bildt)

1. to form

   in the contemporary language only in the participle bildende and in compounds

• afbilde
• bilde ind
• bildende
• indbilde

• “bilde,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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bilde

1. inflection of bilden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

From Middle Low German bilde or Middle Dutch bilde (“drawing, image, example”), cf. German Bild.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [bilːde]

bilde f (5th declension)

1. picture, image
2. photo

• attēls (“image”)
• fotogrāfija (“photo”)

• bildēt

bilde

1. alternative form of bylden

• billede (now nonstandard, officially since 1959, in Riksmål since 2024)

Inherited from Danish billede, from Old Danish beletæ, from Middle Low German bēl(e)de, from Old Saxon bilithi, from Proto-West Germanic *biliþi. The contracted spelling was first standardized in 1938.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪldə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪldə
• Hyphenation: bil‧de

bilde n (definite singular bildet, indefinite plural bilder, definite plural bilda or bildene)

1. picture, image

• Compounds can be formed from the stems bilde- or billed-. Only the latter is possible in billedlig (“figurative”).

• “bilde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bilde” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• bilde-, blide, debil, dible

• bilete

From Old Norse bilæti.

• IPA^(key): /bɪldə/
• Rhymes: -ɪldə

bilde n (definite singular bildet, indefinite plural bilde, definite plural bilda)

1. picture, image

• “bilde” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.