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gera

1. allative singular of ge

Borrowed from Spanish guerra.

• IPA(key): /ˈɡeɾa/ [ˈɡe.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ge‧ra

géra (Basahan spelling ᜄᜒᜍ)

1. war
   Synonym: gubat (archaic)

• kagera

• maggera

• makigera

• gerilya

• IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːɹa/

From Old Norse gera, gøra, gørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną.

gera (third person singular past indicative gjørdi, supine gjørt)

1. to do, to make

From Danish gære, from German gären.

gera (third person singular past indicative geraði, supine gerað)

1. to ferment, to brew

• gjöra (mostly archaic)

From Old Norse gera, gøra, gørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną.

• IPA(key): /ˈcɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

gera (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gerði, supine gert)

1. to do [_with_ accusative]
   Hvað ertu að gera?
   What are you doing?
   Letingjar gera aldrei neitt.
   Loafers never do anything.
2. to make [_with_ accusative]
3. to arbitrate, to determine
4. (impersonal) used with nouns denoting a weather condition to indicate that that type of weather is going on
   Það gerði rigningu.
   It rained.

• gera áttavilltan (“to disorient, to disorientate”)

• gera höfðinu styttri, höfðinu styttri (“to cut of someone's head, to make them shorter by the height of their head”)

• gera villu

• gera vísu

• um að gera

• gera einhverjum að greiða

• eins og við gerðum ráð fyrir

• ekkert við að gera

• gera að fiski

• gera að gamni sínu

• gera að sári

• gera að verkum

• gera af sér

• gera á hluta

• gera á sig

• gera ekkert

• gera ekkert í

• gera ekkert til

• gera grein fyrir

• gera í buxurnar

• gera rangt til

• gera ráð fyrir

• gera sér lítið fyrir

• gera sér ljóst

• gera sér upp

• gera sig til

• gera til geðs

• gera um mál

• gera upp

• gera upp á milli

• gera upp hús

• gera upp reikning

• gera upp vél

• gera upp við sig

• gera út

• gera út af við

• gera út mann til

• gera við

• gera villu

• gerast

• gerðu svo vel

• gerður

• til þess að gera

• IPA(key): /ɣɛɾa/

gera (infinitive kũgera)

1. to count, to measure, to reckon[1]
   Mũndũ ageraga maimwo, ndageraga maheo. ― One counts refusals, does not count gifts.[2]
2. to pass through
   Ĩgĩtithia gwĩciiria njĩra ĩrĩa ĩĩkũgera. ― [The hyena (hiti)] stopped to consider which road he was going to take.[3]

(Nouns)

• kĩgera class 7
• mũgere class 3

1. ^ “gera” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 108. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2. ^ Cagnolo, C. (1933). The Akikuyu: Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore, p. 220. Nyeri, Kenya: Akikuyu in the Mission Printing School.
3. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 302–303. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

• rega
• IPA(key): /ɡʲɛˈra/

gerà

1. nominative/instrumental feminine singular of geras

From Latin glarea.

• IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛra/, /d͡ʒera/

gera f

1. gravel

gera

1. (Moa) water

• jera (Wetan)
• Leti (2004, →ISBN, page 29 (comparative wordlist)
• gerva, gøra, gørva, gjǫra, gjǫrva, gǫra, gǫrva

From Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).

gera (singular past indicative gerði, plural past indicative gerðu, past participle gerðr)

1. to do, make

• Icelandic: gjöra, gera
• Faroese: gera
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjera, gjere; (dialectal) gjårå, gjara, gjøra, gjørå, gjørø
• Jamtish: gjara
• Elfdalian: djärå
• Old Swedish: gø̄ra, gæra, giora
  • Swedish: göra
• Old Danish: gøræ
  • Danish: gøre
    * Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre
  • Scanian: gøra
• Old Gutnish: giera
  • Gutnish: gyre, gäre
• → Middle English: gerren, garren, garen
  • English: gar
  • Scots: gar
• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “göra”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

gera

1. inflection of gerar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French gérer.

a gera (third-person singular present gerează, past participle gerat) 1st conjugation

1. to manage

Borrowed from Spanish guierra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɾa/ [ˈɡɛː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ge‧ra
• Homophone: Guerra

gera (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜇ)

1. Alternative form of giyera

gera

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of èser
2. third-person plural imperfect indicative of èser

Borrowed from Spanish guerra.

gera

1. war