tangera
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]tangera
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German tangieren, from Latin tangere.
Verb
[edit]tangera (present tangerar, preterite tangerade, supine tangerat, imperative tangera)
- (geometry) to be tangent (to something)
- Linjen tangerar cirkeln i punkten (1, 1)
- The line is tangent to the circle at the point (1, 1)
- (figuratively) to equal, to match (usually a previous result)
- Nisse tangerade världsrekordet
- Nisse matched the world record
- tangera sitt personbästa
- match one's personal best
- Nisse tangerade Olle
- Nisse matched Olle('s record)
- (figuratively) to touch on; to border on
- Rapporten tangerar vissa andra områden som inte är huvudfokus
- The report touches on certain other areas that are not the main focus
- något som tangerar högförräderi
- something that borders on high treason
- (figuratively) to lightly touch
- Bollen tangerade målstolpen
- The ball grazed the goalpost
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tangera | tangeras | ||
| supine | tangerat | tangerats | ||
| imperative | tangera | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | tangeren | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | tangerar | tangerade | tangeras | tangerades |
| ind. plural1 | tangera | tangerade | tangeras | tangerades |
| subjunctive2 | tangere | tangerade | tangeres | tangerades |
| present participle | tangerande | |||
| past participle | tangerad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tangera”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)