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veer

See also: Veer and véër

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).

Verb

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veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

  2. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle French virer.

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veer (plural veers)

  2. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
    • 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
      […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
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change of direction - of the wind

Verb

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veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

  2. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
    The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      And as he leads, the following navy veers.
    • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace:
      We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
    • 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
      In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
    • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
    • 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:
      As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
      [page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
    • 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      As for the legions of paintings, they veer between the bland and bizarre.
  3. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).[1]
    • 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
      It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
  4. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.[1]
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
  6. (transitive) To turn.
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  • (antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift clockwise”): back
  • (antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift aft”): haul forward
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bowditch 2002

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch veer.

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Noun

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veer (plural vere)

  1. feather

Danish

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veer

  1. plural of ve

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.

Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.

Noun

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veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

  1. a feather, plume
    Synonym: pluim
  2. a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
  3. a twisted leaf, notably of a fern
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  • Afrikaans: veer
  • → Caribbean Javanese: pir
  • → Indonesian: per (“spring”)

Verb

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veer

  1. inflection of veren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.

Cognate with German Fähre.

Noun

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veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

  1. ferry
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  • Afrikaans: veer
  • → Sranan Tongo: fer
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: fer
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fir, pir

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Dutch Low Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier.

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veer

  1. four (4)

Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *veeri.

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Noun

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veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)

  1. edge

Declension

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Declension of veer (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative veer veered
accusative nom.
gen. veere
genitive veerte
partitive veert veeri
illative veerde
veeresse 		veertesse
veerisse
inessive veeres veertes
veeris
elative veerest veertest
veerist
allative veerele veertele
veerile
adessive veerel veertel
veeril
ablative veerelt veertelt
veerilt
translative veereks veerteks
veeriks
terminative veereni veerteni
essive veerena veertena
abessive veereta veerteta
comitative veerega veertega

Further reading

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  • “veer”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “veer”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • veer in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

German Low German

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Low German cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : veer
    Ordinal : veert

Etymology

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From Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.

Numeral

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veer

  1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)

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Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— null een twee/twei dree/drei veer fiev/fief söß/söss/seß sæben/söven acht negen/nägen
1— teihn/tein/tien ölven/elf twölf dörteihn veerteihn föffteihn sössteihn söventeihn achtteihn negenteihn
2— twintig eenuntwintig tweeuntwintig dreeuntwintig veeruntwintig fiefuntwintig sössuntwintig sövenuntwintig achtuntwintig negenuntwintig
3— dörtig eenundörtig tweeundörtig dreeundörtig veerundörtig fiefundörtig sössundörtig sövenundörtig achtundörtig negenundörtig
4— veertig eenunveertig tweeunveertig dreeunveertig veerunveertig fiefunveertig sössunveertig sövenunveertig achtunveertig negenunveertig
5— föfftig eenunföfftig tweeunföfftig dreeunföfftig veerunföfftig fiefunföfftig sössunföfftig sövenunföfftig achtunföfftig negenunföfftig
6— sösstig eenunsösstig tweeunsösstig dreeunsösstig veerunsösstig fiefunsösstig sössunsösstig sövenunsösstig achtunsösstig negenunsösstig
7— söventig eenunsöventig tweeunsöventig dreeunsöventig veerunsöventig fiefunsöventig sössunsöventig sövenunsöventig achtunsöventig negenunsöventig
8— achtig
tachentig		 eenunachtig
eenuntachentig		 tweeunachtig
tweeuntachentig		 dreeunachtig
dreeuntachentig		 veerunachtig
veeruntachentig		 fiefunachtig
fiefuntachentig		 sössunachtig
sössuntachentig		 sövenunachtig
sövenuntachentig		 achtunachtig
achtuntachentig		 negenunachtig
negenuntachentig
9— negentig eenunnegentig tweeunnegentig dreeunnegentig veerunnegentig fiefunnegentig sössunnegentig sövenunnegentig achtunnegentig negenunnegentig
Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

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Jutish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vita.

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veer

  1. (Fjolde) to know

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  • “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Limburgish

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Etymology

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From earlier vēr, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch *fier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

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veer (Eupen)

  1. (cardinal number) four

Middle English

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veer

  1. Alternative form of firre

Norwegian Bokmål

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veer m

  1. indefinite plural of ve

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veer

  1. Alternative form of veoir

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin vidēre, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).

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veer

  1. to see

Conjugation

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Conjugation of veer, ver
infinitive simple veer, ver
compound infinitive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
gerund simple veendo, vendo
compound gerund of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
past participle singular plural
masculine veúdo, viúdo, visto *veúdos, *viúdos, vistos
feminine veúda, viúda, vista *veúdas, *viúdas, vistas
present participle *veente, *vente *veentes, ventes
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative mood eu
ei 		tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
simple
tenses 		present vejo vees, vês vee, vê veemos, vemos veedes, vedes veen, vên
imperfect *veía, viía, via veías, viías, vias *veía, *viía, via veïamos, veíamos, viïamos, viíamos, viamos, víamos *veïades, *veíades, *viïades, *viíades, *viades, *víades veían, viían, vian
preterite *veí, vií, vi viste, *vische, *viche viu, vío, veu, veo vimos vistes viron
pluperfect vira viras vira viramos, víramos virades, vírades viran
future veerei, verei veerás, verás veerá, verá veeremos, veremos veeredes, veredes veerán, verán
conditional veeria, veria veerias, verias veeria, veria veeriamos, veriamos, veeríamos, veríamos veeriades, veriades, veeríades, veríades veerian, verian
compound
tenses 		present perfect present of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
present imperfect imperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
past anterior preterite of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
pluperfect simple pluperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
future perfect future of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
subjunctive mood eu
ei 		tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
simple
tenses 		present veja vejas veja vejamos vejades vejan
imperfect visse visses visse víssemos víssedes vissen
future vir vires vir virmos virdes viren
compound
tenses 		present perfect present subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
pluperfect preterite subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
future perfect future subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
imperative mood — tu vossa mercee nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		—
affirmative — vee, vê, *vei veja vejamos veede, vede —
negative — non vejas non veja non vejamos non vejades —
personal infinitive eu
ei 		tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
veer, ver veeres, veres veer, ver veermos, vermos veerdes, verdes veeren, veren
1Its alternative spelling, aver, can be used as well.
2teer and ter were used too, though all 3 were less common than forms of haver.

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Verb

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veer (first-person singular present veo, first-person singular preterite veí, past participle veído)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ver.

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of veer (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive veer
gerund veyendo
past participle masculine feminine
singular veído veída
plural veídos veídas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present veo veestú
veésvos 		vee veemos veéis veen
imperfect veía veías veía veíamos veíais veían
preterite veí veíste veyó veímos veísteis veyeron
future veeré veerás veerá veeremos veeréis veerán
conditional veería veerías veería veeríamos veeríais veerían
subjunctive yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present vea veastú
veásvos2 		vea veamos veáis vean
imperfect
(ra) 		veyera veyeras veyera veyéramos veyerais veyeran
imperfect
(se) 		veyese veyeses veyese veyésemos veyeseis veyesen
future1 veyere veyeres veyere veyéremos veyereis veyeren
imperative — tú
vos 		usted nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ustedes
affirmative veetú
veévos 		vea veamos veed vean
negative no veas no vea no veamos no veáis no vean

1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of veer

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
with infinitive veer dative veerme veerte veerle, veerse veernos veeros veerles, veerse
accusative veerme veerte veerlo, veerla, veerse veernos veeros veerlos, veerlas, veerse
with gerund veyendo dative veyéndome veyéndote veyéndole, veyéndose veyéndonos veyéndoos veyéndoles, veyéndose
accusative veyéndome veyéndote veyéndolo, veyéndola, veyéndose veyéndonos veyéndoos veyéndolos, veyéndolas, veyéndose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative vee dative véeme véete véele véenos not used véeles
accusative véeme véete véelo, véela véenos not used véelos, véelas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative veé dative veeme veete veele veenos not used veeles
accusative veeme veete veelo, veela veenos not used veelos, veelas
with formal second-person singular imperative vea dative véame not used véale, véase véanos not used véales
accusative véame not used véalo, véala, véase véanos not used véalos, véalas
with first-person plural imperative veamos dative not used veámoste veámosle veámonos veámoos veámosles
accusative not used veámoste veámoslo, veámosla veámonos veámoos veámoslos, veámoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative veed dative veedme not used veedle veednos veeos veedles
accusative veedme not used veedlo, veedla veednos veeos veedlos, veedlas
with formal second-person plural imperative vean dative véanme not used véanle véannos not used véanles, véanse
accusative véanme not used véanlo, véanla véannos not used véanlos, véanlas, véanse

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