tigga
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
tigga
- inflection of tigge:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- tigge (e- and split infinitives)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse þiggja, from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną.
Verb[edit]
tigga (present tense tiggar or tigg, past tense tigga or tagg, supine tigga or tigge, past participle tigga or tiggen, present participle tiggande, imperative tigg)
- to beg
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “tigga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish þiggia, from Old Norse þiggja (“to receive”), from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną.
Verb[edit]
tigga (present tigger, preterite tiggde, supine tiggt, imperative tigg)
- to beg (as a beggar)
- en tiggare som sitter på gatan och tigger (pengar)
- a beggar who sits on the street and begs (for money)
- försörja sig genom att tigga
- make a living by begging
- På en vecka lyckades hon bara tigga ihop 500 kronor
- In a week, she only managed to earn 500 kronor through begging [only managed to beg together 500 kronor]
- to panhandle
- (figuratively, more or less weakened) to beg, to ask for
- tigga om några dagar ledigt
- beg for a few days off
- to scrounge
- tigga till sig en cigarett
- scrounge [beg to oneself] a cigarette
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of tigga (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tigga | tiggas | ||
| Supine | tiggt | tiggts | ||
| Imperative | tigg | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | tiggen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | tigger | tiggde | tiggs, tigges | tiggdes |
| Ind. plural1 | tigga | tiggde | tiggas | tiggdes |
| Subjunctive2 | tigge | tiggde | tigges | tiggdes |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | tiggande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Synonyms[edit]
- (to plead with someone): tigga och be
Related terms[edit]
- tiggare (“beggar”)
- tiggande
- tigga sig till
- tiggeri
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Categories:
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tek- (receive)
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Swedish weak verbs