plåga
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish plagha, from Middle Low German plage, from Latin plaga (“plague, injury, wound”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]plåga c
- a pain, a plague, a torment
- Han är en riktig plåga!
- He's a pain in the neck/ass!
- (obsolete) plague[1]
- Synonym: pest
- (obsolete) epidemic[2]
- Synonym: farsot
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | plåga | plågas |
| definite | plågan | plågans | |
| plural | indefinite | plågor | plågors |
| definite | plågorna | plågornas |
Verb
[edit]plåga (present plågar, preterite plågade, supine plågat, imperative plåga)
- to torment, to torture
- (more generally, through figurative weakening) to cause significant pain or distress, to plague, to torment
- Grannen plågade henne med hög musik vid fyratiden på morgonen.
- Her neighbor tormented her with loud music at four in the morning.
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | plåga | plågas | ||
| supine | plågat | plågats | ||
| imperative | plåga | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | plågen | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | plågar | plågade | plågas | plågades |
| ind. plural1 | plåga | plågade | plågas | plågades |
| subjunctive2 | plåge | plågade | plåges | plågades |
| present participle | plågande | |||
| past participle | plågad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “plåga”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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