sexa

See also: sexà and sexa-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈse̞k.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈsɛk.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsɛk.sa]

Verb

sexa

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛk.sa/
• Homophones: sexas, sexât

Etymology 1

Noun

sexa m or f by sense (plural sexas)

1. clipping of sexagénaire

Coordinate terms

• quinqua

Etymology 2

Verb

sexa

1. third-person singular past historic of sexer

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseʃɐ/

Verb

sexa

1. inflection of ser:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Icelandic

Etymology

From sex (“six”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛksa]

Noun

sexa f (genitive singular sexu, nominative plural sexur)

1. six (playing card)

Declension

Declension of sexa (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sexa	sexan	sexur	sexurnar
accusative	sexu	sexuna	sexur	sexurnar
dative	sexu	sexunni	sexum	sexunum
genitive	sexu	sexunnar	sexa	sexanna

Ligurian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseʒa/

Noun

sexa

1. alternative form of çêxa (“cherry”)

Portuguese

Verb

sexa

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

sexa

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish

Etymology 1

From the number sex (“six”).

Noun

sexa c

1. Number six.
2. A child in the sixth grade; someone who is in the sixth year of school.
3. (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the sixth year in school.

   De barnen går i sexan.

   Those children are in sixth grade.

4. A drink containing six centiliters of liquor.
5. A person, or a team, with result as number six in a sports competition or, eventually, any other type of competition.

   komma sexa

   get on the sixth place, end as number six

6. (dated) a light, festive (six o'clock) evening meal (with alcohol)

Declension

Declension of sexa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sexa	sexas
	definite	sexan	sexans
plural	indefinite	sexor	sexors
	definite	sexorna	sexornas

Derived terms

• huggsexa
• nattsexa
• sillsexa
• svensexa

(six o'clock festivity):

• nattsexa (“nightly light meal [after party]”)
• sillsexa (“[festive] light herring meal”)
• sexbord (“dinner table [for festivities]”)
• sexdags (“[appointed] time for festivities”)
• sexliv (“life characterised by sexa”)
• sexmästare (“host”)
• sexmästarinna (“hostess”)
• sextid (“[appointed] time for festivities”)

Related terms

• sjätte
• sjättedel

See also

• nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva

Etymology 2

From sex (“sex”) +‎ -a.

Verb

sexa (present sexar, preterite sexade, supine sexat, imperative sexa)

1. (colloquial) to have sexual intercourse

Conjugation

Conjugation of sexa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	sexa		sexas
supine	sexat		sexats
imperative	sexa		—
imper. plural1	sexen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	sexar	sexade	sexas	sexades
ind. plural1	sexa	sexade	sexas	sexades
subjunctive2	sexe	sexade	sexes	sexades
present participle		sexande
past participle		sexad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.