forstå

From Middle Low German vorstān, Proto-Germanic *frastandaną (“to understand, oppose”), equivalent to for- +‎ stå. Cognates are Swedish förstå and German verstehen.

• IPA^(key): [fʌˈsd̥ɔˀ]

forstå (imperative forstå, infinitive at forstå, present tense forstår, past tense forstod, perfect tense har forstået)

1. to understand

From Middle Low German vorstan.

• IPA^(key): /fɔɾˈstoː/, [fɔ̞ˈʂʈo̞ː]

forstå (imperative forstå, present tense forstår, simple past forsto or forstod, past participle forstått)

1. to understand

• misforstå

• forståelig
• forståelse

• forstand

• “forstå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German vorstan, and Late Old Norse fyrirstanda, forstanda.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrˈstoː/, [fɔ̞ˈʂʈo̞ː]

forstå (present tense forstår, past tense forstod, past participle forstått, passive infinitive forståast, present participle forståande, imperative forstå)

1. to understand

• misforstå

• forstand
• fatte
• skjønne

• “forstå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Norwegian Nynorsk forstå.

• IPA^(key): /fɔˈʃʈoː/

forstå

1. to understand

   Moja njet forstå

   I don't understand

• Ingvild Broch; Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: The pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag