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bli

Pronunciation: /bliː/

“bli” is a Swedish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to become
  2. to turn into (with an optional preposition till)
  3. to remain, to stay
  4. to be (in a future sense)
  5. used together with an adjective or past participle, meaning "has become"

Etymology

Apocopic form of bliva, from Old Swedish bliva, from Middle Low German blîven (“to remain”), from Old Saxon bilīvan, from Proto-West Germanic *bilīban, from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną. Displaced Swedish varda completely in the present tense, and partly in the past tense.

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