anse

From an (“on”) +‎ se (“to see”), from German ansehen (“to look at, consider”). In both languages, the participle is used as an adjective with the meaning "respectable" (see anset, angesehen). Doublet of se an.

• IPA^(key): [ˈanˌseˀ]

anse (imperative anse, infinitive at anse, present tense anser, past tense anså, perfect tense har anset)

1. to consider, regard

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃s/

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Inherited from Middle French anse, from Late Old French anse, borrowed from Latin ānsa.

anse f (plural anses)

1. (geometry) an arc segment, from which an object is suspended
2. a handle, part of an object to be hand-held when used or moved
3. a small bay (body of water)

• ansette
• ansière

Borrowed from German Hansa.

anse f (plural anses)

1. a hansa, system of collaborating port-states

• anséatique (adjective)

• “anse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ânes

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.se/
• Rhymes: -anse
• Hyphenation: àn‧se

anse f

1. plural of ansa

• sane

an- +‎ se; from German ansehen

anse (imperative anse, present tense anser, passive anses or ansees, simple past anså, past participle ansett, present participle anseende)

1. to consider, regard

• uansett

• “anse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• anes, asen, ensa, nesa, sena

• annse, insæ, inse

From an- (“un-”) +‎ asse (“easy”), or directly from Proto-Celtic *an-sādo-syos (compare Middle Welsh anhawð, modern Welsh anodd (“difficult, troublesome”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈan͈se/

anse (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

1. difficult, impossible
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^b28

     is inse ṅduit; ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail.

     it is impossible for you sg; it is not you that nourish it, but it that nourishes you

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	anse	anse	anse
Vocative	ansi
Accusative	anse	ansi
Genitive	ansi	anse	ansi
Dative	ansu	ansi	ansu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	ansi	ansi
Vocative	ansi ansu*
Accusative	ansi ansu*
Genitive	anse
Dative	ansib
Notes	* when substantivized

• ní anse

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Swedish anse, from Middle Low German ansen. Equivalent to an- +‎ se.

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anse (present anser, preterite ansåg, supine ansett, imperative anse)

1. to be of an opinion, to think, to believe, to feel

   Sven anser att Beatles var riktigt bra

   Sven thinks (is of the opinion) that the Beatles were really good

   Vi anser att den här metoden är mest lovande

   We believe (are of the opinion that) this method is the most promising

• anse in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• asen, enas, nesa, sena, snea