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fallere

verbverb

to fail, to go wrong · to decline, to go downhill · to go bankrupt

EtymologyOpphav

gjennom tysk og italiensk, fra latin ‘svikte’; jamfør norrønt fallera through German and Italian, from Latin 'to fail'; compare Old Norse fallera

Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk

  1. gå fallitt (I, 1)bankrupt to go bankruptfallitt (I, 1)
  2. slå feil;
    mislykkesto fail · to go wrong, to turn out badly     to go wrong;
    to failmislykkes
  3. tape seg;
    falle av     to decline;
    to fall off
    • hun har begynt å fallere she has begun to go downhill