spörja
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish spyria, from Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Norwegian Nynorsk spørje, spørja, Danish spørge, Icelandic spyrja, Faroese spyrja, Westrobothnian spöri, Dutch speuren, German spüren, Luxembourgish spieren, English speer, speir, spere and Scots speir.
Verb[edit]
spörja (present spörjer, preterite sporde, supine sport, imperative spörj)
- (dated) to ask, to learn, to get news (after having asked around)
- Skall ni verkligen bli läkare? sporde hon en dag
- Are you really becoming a doctor? she asked one day
- han hade sport att påvens munskänk var död
- he had learned that the pope's cupbearer was dead
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of spörja (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | spörja | spörjas | ||
Supine | sport | sports | ||
Imperative | spörj | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | spörjer | sporde | spörjs, spörjes | spordes |
Indicative plural1 | spörja | sporde | spörjas | spordes |
Subjunctive2 | spörje | sporde | spörjes | spordes |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | spörjande | |||
Past participle | spord | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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