Gravede

Gravede is the past tense form of the Danish verb grave, meaning to dig or to excavate. It is used to describe a completed digging action in the past. The infinitive form is grave, the present tense is graver, and the past participle is gravet. In Danish, gravede can appear in a variety of contexts, including gardening, construction, archaeology, and everyday narration.

In Danish writing and speech, gravede typically conveys completed digging activity, such as digging a hole, digging for buried items, or archaeological excavations. It is a regular verb form in standard Danish conjugation. As a tense form, it helps distinguish actions that happened previously from present or future actions.

Usage notes and related forms: gravede is primarily a grammatical function rather than a standalone concept. It should not be confused with the noun grav, meaning a grave or tomb. In Norwegian Bokmål, the corresponding past tense of the verb grave is gravde, which is a closely related but orthographically distinct form.

Example: Han gravede et hul i haven i går. Translation: He dug a hole in the garden yesterday. The form illustrates how gravede signals a completed digging action in the past within a Danish sentence.