vorde

Danish

vorde (past tense vordede, past participle vordet)

(archaic, copulative) to become, get (go from one state into another, with a predicative)
- 1837, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Sang-Værk til den Danske Kirke (= Den danske Salmebog, no. 104) / https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig1837a12:
  Da vorder Engle vi som de.
  Then we will become angels like them.
- 1837, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Sang-Værk til den Danske Kirke / https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig2001061835:
  Som en Fader vorder vred | paa Døttre og paa Sønner ...
  Like a father gets angry at his daughters and his sons ...
(archaic, auxiliary) to be (used with the past participle to form the passive voice)
- 1931, Det Danske Bibelselskab, Bibelen:
  Helliget vorde dit Navn (in the 1992 translation: Helliget blive dit navn)
  Hallowed be thy name.
(archaic, intransitive) to come into being
- 1936, Per Krarup, “Platon. Sofisten”, in Platons Skrifter, volume 7, page 56:
  Naar nu en af dem bruger Udtryk som "der er" eller "der er vordet" eller "der vorder" mange eller eet eller to Principper ...
  When some of them use phrases such as many or one or two principles "exist" or "have come into being" or "are coming into being" ...

Inflection of vorde

From Old Norse verða, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to become, happen”).

vorde (present tense vorder, past tense vorda or vordet, past participle vorda or vordet)

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