ober
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Breton
Etymology
Verbal noun from Old Breton oper, from Latin opera (cf. Cornish ober, Welsh gober). Inflected forms in gr- or gwr- are from Proto-Brythonic *gwrėɣɨd, from Proto-Celtic *wregeti, cognate with Welsh gwneud (older forms with initial gwr-) and Cornish gwul (all forms in gwr-).
Verb
ober
- (transitive) to do, make
- (auxiliary) used as an auxiliary verb to conjugate any verb
- Gwerzhañ a ran ma zi hiziv.
- I sell my house today ("Sell I do my house today").
Usage notes
- All forms with initial gr- occur after the verbal particle (a, e) and mutate irregularly so that the initial g- disappears, e.g. a ran, e reomp instead of *a c'hran, *e c'hreomp. This oddity comes from the old forms in gwr-: the initial gw- was being lenited to w-, and then the -w- was dropped in both lenited and non-lenited forms.
Conjugation
| Personal forms | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative | Conditional | Imperative | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Future | Present | Imperfect | ||
| 1s | gran | graen | gris | grin | grafen | grajen | - |
| 2s | grez | graes | grejout | gri | grafes | grajes | gra |
| 3s | gra | grae | greas | gray, graio | grafe | graje | graet |
| 1p | greomp | graemp | grejomp | graimp | grafemp | grajemp | greomp |
| 2p | grit | graec'h | grejoc'h | greot | grafec'h | grajec'h | grit |
| 3p | greont | graent | grejont | graint | grafent | grajent | graent |
| 0 | greer | graed | grejod | greor | grafed | grajed | - |
| Impersonal forms | Mutated forms | ||||||
| Infinitive | ober, gober | Soft mutation after a | a ra- | ||||
| Present participle | oc'h ober | Mixed mutation after e | e ra- | ||||
| Past participle | graet (auxiliary verb: kaout) | Soft mutation after ne/na | ne/na ra- | ||||
Conjugation of ober
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- ober goap
Cornish
Etymology
From Latin opera (“work”). Cognate with Breton ober, Irish and Scottish Gaelic obair, Manx obbyr, and Welsh gober. Doublet of opera.
Noun
ober m (plural oberow)
Derived terms
- badd-ober (“bad deed”)
- begh ober (“workload”)
- da ober (“good deed”)
- drogober (“crime”)
- hager ober (“crime”)
- hwel ober (“industry”)
- ober mas (“good deed”)
- ober tre (“homework”)
- oberador m (“operator”)
- oberadores f (“operator”)
- oberadow (“argument”)
- oberedh (“work (physics)”)
- oberen (“job, task”)
- oberer m (“worker”)
- oberi (“to act, create, operate, work”, verb)
- oberores f (“worker”)
- oberwas (“servant”)
- oberyans (“operation”)
- omoberi (“exercise”, verb)
- rann ober (“task”)
- shoppa ober (“workshop”)
- tebel ober (“evil deed”)
Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
ober
Dutch
Etymology
From German Ober, short for Oberkellner (“head waiter”). Compare Dutch kelner, which is also borrowed from German. In both Dutch and German, the distinction between ober/Ober and kelner/Kellner is now neglected.
Pronunciation
Noun
ober m (plural obers, diminutive obertje n)
- waiter
- Ober, mag ik de menukaart alstublieft? ― Waiter, may I have the menu please?
- De obers waren druk bezig met het serveren van de gasten. ― The waiters were busy serving the guests.
- Dat obertje was erg behulpzaam en vriendelijk. ― That young waiter was very helpful and friendly.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Preposition
ober [with dative]
- (Austria, South Tyrol) over, above
- Synonym: oberhalb
- Ober der Eingangstür hängt ein Schild.
- Over the entrance door there's a sign hanging.
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
ober m (plural oberi)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
óber m (Cyrillic spelling о́бер)
References
- “ober”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Silesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ober m pers
Related terms
noun
Further reading
- Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “ober”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 192
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.