tree – English noun declension

English noun forms of tree

Noun: tree
Singulartree
Pluraltrees

Sample Sentences

  • Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
  • Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village. [1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:]
  • When we see a train trapped behind (or embedded in) a fallen tree our first thought should be 'what was it doing there anyway?' […]Trees are also responsible for numerous minor delays in autumn [due to leaves falling on the track], which rolling stock engineers are supposed to cope with as usual. [2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:]
  • The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
  • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
  • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • family tree; skill tree
  • I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe [2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits:]
  • Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah) [2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:]
  • Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say? Fuck is you sayin'? [2018, “Ace”, in Room 25, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba:]
  • Tyburn tree
  • The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30:]
  • Ste[phano]. Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree:[…] [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:]
  • Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree? [1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:]
  • When Jesus died on that tree, he bore the awful curse of the law for us so that we might be saved. [1997, Warren W. Wiersbe, The Names of Jesus:]
  • Oh, that's not to say Peter's life was easy. In fact, he, too, ended up on a tree—not hung up by guilt, but crucified upside down on a cross for the sake of the One who not only hung on a tree for him, but rose and lived within him, empowering him to live a life of incredible impact and ministry. [2004, Jon Courson, Jon Courson's Application Commentary, page 1130:]
  • Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life. [2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation:]
  • Outside of Jerusalem, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified on a tree with two other thieves because He claimed to be the king of the Jews. [2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus:]

Nouns inflected like tree

bronchial tree, eye, bee, cheese, tree, knee,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *drew-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-om
4. Proto-Germanic *trewą
5. Proto-West Germanic *treu
6. Old English trēow
7. Middle English tre
8. English tree
9. PIE word
10. *dóru
11. From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true.
12. Cognates
13. Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во (drévo, “tree; wood”), Serbo-Croatian др̏во, drȇvo, drijȇvo, drȋvo, dȑvo (“tree; wood”), Slovak and Slovene drevo (“tree; wood”), Ukrainian де́рево (dérevo, “tree; wood”), Armenian տարր (tarr, “element; component”), Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dāᵘru, “wood”), Central Kurdish and Persian دار (dâr, “tree; wood”), Northern Kurdish dar (“tree”), Zazaki dare (“tree”), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (taru), 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (táru, “tree; wood”), Luwian 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (tāru, “wood”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B or (“wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “timber, wood”).
14. Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre. See: Dutch Nouns 'teer', Icelandic Nouns 'tré', Swedish Nouns 'trä', Gothic Nouns '𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿', Irish Nouns 'dair', Ancient Greek Nouns 'δόρυ', Greek Nouns 'δόρυ', Latvian Nouns 'darva', Czech Nouns 'drvo', Polish Nouns 'drzewo'.

Verbs referencing "tree"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tre, Old Norse Nouns tré, Danish Nouns træ, Faroese Nouns træ, Old English Nouns teoru, Ancient Greek Nouns δρῦς, Ancient Greek Nouns δόρυ.