virke
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]virke (imperative virk, infinitive at virke, present tense virker, past tense virkede, perfect tense har virket)
- function properly
- Lommelygten virker ikke!
- The torch does not work!
- Lommelygten virker ikke!
- to work, to labor
- Synonym: arbejde
- exert influence upon
- 1991, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Latin og nationalsprog i Norden efter reformationen: Konference 1.-5. august 1987, Biskops-Arnö, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 179:
- Han vil altså ikke tale om: sprog, der virker på mennesker ved konvention, f.eks. universalsprog; eller overhovedet om sprog som tegn, der meddeler et indhold.
- Thus, he does not want to talk about: languages, doing work on humans by convention, e.g. universal languagez; or about languages as signs conveying content at all.
- seem, appear
- Du virker lidt sur.
- You seem a little angry.
- Du virker lidt sur.
Conjugation
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse virki (“fortress, deed”). related to Old Saxon giwirki. From the same root, see værk
Noun
[edit]virke
- (uncountable, formal, solemn) work, labor
- Synonyms: gerning, virksomhed
Declension
[edit]| neuter gender |
singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | virke | virket |
| genitive | virkes | virkets |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]virkkaa (“to say, utter”) (dialectal) + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1880, based on a dialectal word with the senses “word, utterance”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʋirkeˣ/, [ˈʋirk̟e̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -irke
- Syllabification(key): vir‧ke
- Hyphenation(key): vir‧ke
Noun
[edit]virke
- (grammar) sentence (grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, in Latin-script and some other languages ending in punctuation)
Usage notes
[edit]- virke means only the whole sentence or set of clauses ending with a period, exclamation point or question mark. Thus, "Minä menen kouluun, vaikka en jaksaisi." is a virke, while "Minä menen kouluun" is a lause (or more exactly a päälause) and vaikka en jaksaisi is a lause (or more exactly a sivulause).
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of virke (Kotus type 48*A/hame, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | virke | virkkeet | |
| genitive | virkkeen | virkkeiden virkkeitten | |
| partitive | virkettä | virkkeitä | |
| illative | virkkeeseen | virkkeisiin virkkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | virke | virkkeet | |
| accusative | nom. | virke | virkkeet |
| gen. | virkkeen | ||
| genitive | virkkeen | virkkeiden virkkeitten | |
| partitive | virkettä | virkkeitä | |
| inessive | virkkeessä | virkkeissä | |
| elative | virkkeestä | virkkeistä | |
| illative | virkkeeseen | virkkeisiin virkkeihin | |
| adessive | virkkeellä | virkkeillä | |
| ablative | virkkeeltä | virkkeiltä | |
| allative | virkkeelle | virkkeille | |
| essive | virkkeenä | virkkeinä | |
| translative | virkkeeksi | virkkeiksi | |
| abessive | virkkeettä | virkkeittä | |
| instructive | — | virkkein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “virke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse virki (noun), and German wirken (verb).
Noun
[edit]virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)
- (uncountable) business; work
- of or related to woodwork
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]virke (imperative virk, present tense virker, passive virkes, simple past and past participle virka or virket, present participle virkende)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “virke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse virki, influenced by Norwegian Bokmål virke. Doublet of vyrke n.
Noun
[edit]virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)
Synonyms
[edit]- (wood): vyrke
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “virke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]virke n
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | virke | virkes |
| definite | virket | virkets | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Anagrams
[edit]- Danish terms derived from German
- Danish lemmas
- Danish verbs
- Danish terms with quotations
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish nouns
- Danish uncountable nouns
- Danish formal terms
- Danish solemn terms
- Finnish terms suffixed with -e
- Finnish terms coined by Elias Lönnrot
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irke
- Rhymes:Finnish/irke/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Grammar
- Finnish hame-type nominals
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from German
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werǵ-
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk doublets
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
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