pige

From Old Norse píka, cognate with Icelandic píka and the Swedish piga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːɡə/, [ˈpʰiːə]

pige c (singular definite pigen, plural indefinite piger)

1. girl

   Hun var en god pige i dag.

   She was a good girl today.

• tøs

• pige on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

pige

1. first-person singular present indicative of piger
2. third-person singular present indicative of piger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of piger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of piger
5. second-person singular imperative of piger

• pigé

pige f (plural piges)

1. measure
   • 1865, Lorédan Larchey, Les Excentricités du langage, page 249:

     La pige est chez les ouvriers un morceau de bois donnant la longueur indiquée par le plan.

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2. (colloquial) year (of age)

   du haut de ses trente piges ― in his/her thirties

3. (colloquial) year (period of time in general)

• “pige” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

pigē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pigeō