bedrift

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, around”) +‎ drift.

Verb

bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To drift about; drift around.
   • 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:

     The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?

   • 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:

     Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]

   • 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:

     [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]

Related terms

• bedrive

Danish

Etymology

Formally a nominalization of bedrive (with the verbal noun drift as its second part). Influenced by Middle Low German bedrif and German Betrieb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈdreft/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁæfd̥]

Noun

bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)

1. achievement
2. company, business, trade
3. farm

Declension

Declension of bedrift

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bedrift	bedriften	bedrifter	bedrifterne
genitive	bedrifts	bedriftens	bedrifters	bedrifternes

Derived terms

• heltebedrift
• bedriftslæge

References

• “bedrift” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

1. a company or business

References

• “bedrift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

1. a company or business

References

• “bedrift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

bedrift c

1. feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
2. achievement
3. (archaic) company or business

Declension

Declension of bedrift
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bedrift	bedriften	bedrifter	bedrifterna
Genitive	bedrifts	bedriftens	bedrifters	bedrifternas

Synonyms

• bragd
• hjältebragd
• hjältedåd
• stordåd