spörja
Swedish
Etymology
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, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "gmq-bot" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., Dutch speuren, German spüren, Luxembourgish spieren, English speer, speir, spere and Scots speir.
Verb
spörja
- (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
- Skall ni verkligen bli läkare? sporde hon en dag
Conjugation
Conjugation of spörja (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | spörja | spörjas | ||
| Supine | sport | sports | ||
| Imperative | spörj | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | spörjen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | spörjer | sporde | spörjs, spörjes | spordes |
| Ind. 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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