skalte

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German schalten (“to switch”), from Old High German scaltan (“to push a ship forward”), from Proto-Germanic *skaldaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɡaltə/, [ˈsɡ̊ald̥ə]

Verb

skalte (past tense skaltede, past participle skaltet)

1. (archaic) to rule, dispose

   in the modern language only in the phrase: skalte og valte (“to treat as one likes”)

Conjugation

Inflection of skalte

	present	past
simple	skalter	skaltede
perfect	har skaltet	havde skaltet
passive	skaltes	skaltedes
participle	skaltende	skaltet
imperative	skalt	—
infinitive	skalte	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	skalten	—

Derived terms

• skalte ud