drive
/dɹaɪv/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.13 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The bridges weren't strong enough to drive (campers) over."
- "This SUV drives insanely smoothly—it's like it knows what I want before I do."
- "I drive to work every day."
- "My cousin drove me to the airport."
- "drive a 737"
- "There is a litter ready; lay him in’t And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *drībaną Proto-West Germanic *drīban Old English drīfan Middle English driven English drive From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognates Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), Yola dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve, drieve, drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driiv, driiw, driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to drive; to float”), Alemannic German triibe (“to drive”), Dutch drijven (“to drive, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), Luxembourgish dreiwen (“to drive, propel”), Yiddish טרײַבן (traybn, “to drive”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drive (“to drive, propel”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, drive (“to drive, move; to propel; to run”), Swedish driva (“to drive, compel; to drift; to run”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (dreiban, “to drive”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɹaɪv/
- British English: /dɹaɪv/
Usage
Inflected Forms
drives (present, singular)
driving (participle, present)
drove (past)
drave (archaic, past)
driv (dialectal, past)
driven (participle, past)
druv (dialectal, participle)
drove (dialectal, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
drove (first person, past)
driv (dialectal, first person)